2025 IHS Reading Challenge Week Ten Giveaway

Nature versus nurture takes the battle to the boardroom - and to Natalie Chen.

What’s the first thing they teach you in business school?

Never let emotions decide your fate.

That’s how people get hurt. That’s how millions lose their jobs. That’s how I almost lost everything.

2,000 miles of raging rivers, searing heat, and tender love

“Luke” Hamilton accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man. Nora Macauley, who worked in a brothel for years, has lost all illusions about love. But now they find themselves married and on the dangerous journey to Oregon.

A penniless Countess. A rich Marquis. A grand deception.

In this ‘disguised as a man’ lesbian romance set in England just before the Regency Period, things aren’t as they seem.

The exile asked the empress, "How would you have me love you?"

Outsider is a contemporary novel set in Japan and New Zealand that follows the connections between a light artist, a video game-obsessed businessman, a writer who refuses to speak, and a the star of a gender-bending host bar. For fans of Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Ali Smith’s How to be Both, Jade du Preez’s Outsider is a rich, stylish, engrossing read that convincingly blurs the boundaries between fact and fable.

Two worlds collide, bound by an undeniable connection.

In the quaint seaside town of Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1874, Lizzy Darby finds sanctuary in the familiarity of her family’s general store. Joana, an immigrant from the Azores Islands, adopts a disguise that will change her fate forever. In a battle against prejudice and tradition, can love emerge victorious?

Meridian Bay – A Place for New Beginnings

In the midst of the Gilded Age and the contentious storm fronts of the Suffragette movement, we enter a world where privilege is paramount in a reforming Boston, and there is no room for error or the weak at heart.

You can't hide from yourself

Evelyne, born into nobility, and Annika, a peasant girl with a deadly secret, struggle to change their destinies in Valmora, a medieval world controlled by religion, magic, and men.

Solving mysteries is her business. Finding love is her dream. Will combining the two get her killed?

Victorian London brims with dangers as Stetson plays the detective she was born to. But will she ever find the right woman to be her co-star?

Twelfth Night, but how it should have been!

All the hijinks of the original Shakespeare play, with a modern setting and a queer twist!

But as the mistletoe is hung and the stockings are filled, are sparks flying too?

But as Christmas approaches, will each woman get what they want? Or will they be stuck out in the cold as the days of Morgan’s nannying contract are up?

Lancelot is a lesbian; so is Guinevere

Lancelot is a woman in disguise who discovers she’s a lesbian when she meets Guinevere. Lancelot fears Guinevere would be disgusted by a woman’s body. But Guinevere sees through the disguise and loves Lancelot.

Women in the wild west and historical fiction that will keep you turning the pages.

Even a forbidden true love can find its way out of the darkness and into the sunlight. Set in the early nineteen hundreds, “Barbed Wire” weaves a thrilling, twisted story of star-crossed lovers in the wild west.

Working in the past is hell on your future.

Changing the past to save the future isn’t easy. Extractor Landry Donovan’s fractured mind and Jacqulyn Delaney’s haunted past threaten their latest mission: rescuing a doctor from Nazi Germany. With everything on the line, can they overcome their struggles, or will they fail and doom the past, present, and future?

Previously published in 2017. Rewritten and refreshed (including 20k words stripped out and replaced with better ones!).