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in Lifestyle &middot September 17, 2018

LIES & Coffee Kit Giveaway

Happy Monday, friends! I’m here with a special edition of Kate the (Almost) Great featuring another book giveaway. Good luck!

This is a paid collaboration with St. Martin’s Press.

LIES and Coffee Kit Giveaway

LIES by TM Logan

What if you have the perfect life, the perfect wife and the perfect child—and then, in one shattering moment, you discover nothing is as it seems?

It’s the evening drive home from work, a route Joe Lynch has taken a hundred times with his young son. But when he unexpectedly sees his wife’s car ahead of them, he decides to follow her—and ends up witnessing her secret rendezvous with another man. The encounter will tear two families apart and leave an innocent man set up to take the fall for a murder.

Joe finds himself in the sights of a ruthless killer determined to destroy everything he treasures. He will do whatever it takes to protect his family, but as the net tightens around him, his life begins to fall apart. Soon, Joe is in a life or death struggle with a cunning opponent who is always one step ahead.

Lies poses the question: Can we ever really trust those closest to us?

Lies by T.M. Logan is an unputdownable thriller in which each chapter changes the meaning of what came before, keeping the reader guessing until the jaw-dropping finale.

T. M. Logan was born in Berkshire to an English father and a German mother. He studied at Queen Mary and Cardiff universities before becoming a national newspaper journalist. He currently works in communications and lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children. LIES is his first novel.

Giveaway

LIES Giveaway

One (1) winner will receive a copy of LIES and a French Press & coffee mug because this one will have reading way past your bedtime. This giveaway is only open to US residents. Prizing and samples provided by St. Martin’s Press.

This giveaway runs from 12:00 AM on September 17, 2018 to 11:59 PM on September 23, 2018. Once the giveaway has ended, I will choose a random winner through Rafflecopter, the site through which I run all of my giveaways. I will email the winner, and if I don’t hear back from them for 48 hours, will choose a new winner, who also has 48 to respond to my email to claim their prize. I will pass on the information from the winner to St. Martin’s Press, who are the ones who will actually send the prize.

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Please comment below or email me if you have any questions!

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Kate Mitchell is a blogger, chronic illness patient, and advocate who helps people understand chronic illness and helps chronic illness patients live their best lives.

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