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March '09 Giveaway -- "Out Like A Lamb"

This giveaway is over.

Without further ado, here's March's contest!

The same rules still apply. You can enter by emailing me at nickiheart16@aim.com or leaving a comment on this post. Tell me what's the oddest book experience you've ever had -- whether it was putting Blanche from "A Streetcar Named Desire" together with Blance from The Golden Girls, or if it was looking down and seeing your best fried's full name as a character. (Yes, both have happened to me.) If you blog about the contest or link to the contest, you improve your chances of winning (but you must tell me)!. This contest is only valid to U.S. citizens. Sorry, I don't have the money to ship overseas.

This month's books are...

Jennifer Echols' Going Too Far
*Don't forget to come back later this month; she's also our Final Friday Author!*

All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from her backwater town. Away from her parents who seem determined to keep her imprisoned in their dead-end lives. But one crazy evening involving a dare and forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far...and almost doesn't make it back.

John made a choice to stay. To enforce the rules. To serve and protect. He has nothing but contempt for what he sees as childish rebellion, and he wants to teach Meg a lesson she won't soon forget. But Meg pushes him to the limit by questioning everything he learned at the police academy. And when he pushes back, demanding to know why she won't be tied down, they will drive each other to the edge — and over...

Rudy Josephs' The Marine

Following a rescue mission in Afghanistan, discharged marine John Triton returns home to South Carolina and into the loving arms of his wife, Kate. Though happy to be home, Triton soon discovers that adjusting to a 'normal life' doesn't come easy for him. In fact, suppressing his intense training and strong survival instincts may be the greatest challenge he has ever faced.

That is, until a camping trip to the mountains results in an unfortunate encounter with five ruthless killers on the run, and Kate becomes their unwilling hostage. Left for dead, Triton relentlessly pursues his quarry deep into backwoods country, determined to get his wife back safely at any and all costs. But he's wounded, unarmed, and outnumbered. All he has left are his wits and an almost-animalistic rage that made him an unstoppable killing machine in the frontlines overseas.

The marine is waging a new war, and his enemies have no idea how much trouble they're in...

Lisa Samson's Hollywood Nobody and it's sequel, Finding Hollywood Nobody

Fifteen-year-old Scotty Dawn has spent her young life on the road, traveling to movie sets with her single mom, Charley, a food designer. Yet even though Scotty is wise beyond her years, she still struggles to find her identity. Complicating matters is a mother who offers no guidance and a father she's never met.

Now Scotty is determined to discover what she wants from life. She's even documenting the journey on her "Hollywood Nobody" blog. But as Scotty begins to find dark answers to tough questions, will her story have a happy ending?

Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl

When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over.

Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her.

This is Alice's story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget.