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December 4, 2021
Killer Nashville
Heyyyy, who’s that in this month’s issue of Killer Nashville Magazine? I was so honored to win Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion last year for The Line Between—a book I was petrified no one would want to read in light of current events. Thank you, Killer Nashville, for being a bright spot in an otherwise tough year last year and for this great honor. Read the magazine online here.
November 20, 2021
The Sharjah International Book Fair
Last week my husband and I returned from the United Arab Emirates, where we’d flown for a short, four-day visit to the Sharjah International Book Fair—currently the largest in the world.
We’d never been to the UAE before, so just going at all was an amazing adventure for us. But in our five nights and four quick, jet-lagged days, a few experiences emerged as highlights...
Continue reading about my trip over at the Rogue Women Writers Blog
November 19, 2021
The Reader's House Magazine
Thank you, The Reader’s House, for this awesome feature! I so enjoyed this interview—read it online here
October 5, 2021
Simple Rituals
I get twitchy in the fall.
As minutes of daylight seep from the end of each day, the old restless anxiety creeps in. I know those dark, early evenings are on their way. And, here in the Midwest, the cold comes with it.
Don’t get me wrong—I love winter holidays. It’s just that autumnal shoulder season that eats my lunch in between.
A born night owl (before becoming an insta-mom to three of four kids still at home, turning 50, and menopause), I’ve studied and then worked most of my into the wee hours—sometimes until dawn. Which meant sleeping past noon and five hours of sunlight or less in the dead of winter...
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Photo by Jeremy Thomas
August 30, 2021
Win The Line Between
Goodreads Giveaway for 40 copies in progress now!!! Enter to win The Line Between between August 18 and September 14, 2021.
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AN EXTINCT DISEASE HAS RE-EMERGED FROM THE MELTING ALASKAN PERMAFROST TO CAUSE MADNESS IN ITS VICTIMS.
When 22-year-old Wynter Roth is cast out of a self-contained doomsday cult New Earth, a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia is spreading across the nation.
As she struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, Wynter finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life, convinced she’s made a terrible mistake. Until the night her sister shows up with a set of medical samples key to decoding the disease and Wynter learns there’s something far more sinister at play.
Filled with action, conspiracy, romance, and questions of whom—and what—to believe, The Line Between is a high-octane story of survival and love in a world on the brink of madness.
Read sample chapters here: https://toscalee.com/wp-content/uploa...
Enter now: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
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AN EXTINCT DISEASE HAS RE-EMERGED FROM THE MELTING ALASKAN PERMAFROST TO CAUSE MADNESS IN ITS VICTIMS.
When 22-year-old Wynter Roth is cast out of a self-contained doomsday cult New Earth, a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia is spreading across the nation.
As she struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, Wynter finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life, convinced she’s made a terrible mistake. Until the night her sister shows up with a set of medical samples key to decoding the disease and Wynter learns there’s something far more sinister at play.
Filled with action, conspiracy, romance, and questions of whom—and what—to believe, The Line Between is a high-octane story of survival and love in a world on the brink of madness.
Read sample chapters here: https://toscalee.com/wp-content/uploa...
Enter now: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
May 18, 2021
Who is Elizabeth Bathory?
(Read to the end for a creepy factoid...)
It was a fan who suggested I write a book about Elizabeth Bathory. Having just come off of some heavy duty historical novels, I was ready for something new. I’d heard of Elizabeth Bathory and her legendary atrocities and thought her story would provide a fascinating historical basis for The Progeny’s modern cast of characters—as well as the perfect mythology for the story’s supernatural thread. Add the fact that Bathory was a woman with a bad rap—well. That was practically irresistible; if you’ve read any of my historical novels, you know I always believe there are two sides to the story.
And as I traipsed all over Croatia and Hungary in search of the countess buried by history (her grave site isn’t even known) but kept alive in myth and folklore, that’s exactly what I found: a woman too educated to be silent, too strong to be ignored, with sins too fascinating to be allowed to rest in peace.
Who was Elizabeth Bathory?
Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560–1614) is alleged to be the most notorious female serial killer of all time. The exact number of her victims is unknown, though one witness testified at trial to an incredible total of 650, as detailed in the countess’s private diary.
Her accomplices were burned at the stake, but Bathory herself—a noblewoman and widow of a national hero—was spared execution. Instead, she was walled up in a set of rooms in Cachtice Castle (in present-day Slovakia) “as though she had never been,” where she remained for four years until her death in 1614.
Known to be exceptionally educated, wealthier than the Habsburg king and future Holy Roman Emperor (in debt to her until her incarceration), and a doting mother to her children, the private life and sins of Elizabeth Bathory remain a mystery. History calls her a monster. Others, a victim of conspiracy and greed.
Legend knows her as the Blood Countess.
The crazy thing? I learned through a series of events as I was writing the book that I am distantly related to her.
May 10, 2021
Win The Progeny
Goodreads Giveaway in progress now!!! Enter between May 2 and May 23, 2021.
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I’M TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD AND MY NAME DOESN’T MATTER, BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT TO BE ERASED FOREVER.
When you wake up, you remember nothing. Not your name, or where you were born, or the faces of the people you knew. Just a single warning written to yourself before you forgot it all: Emily, it’s me. You. Don’t ask about the last two years… Don’t try to remember and don’t go digging. Your life depends on it. Other lives depend on it. You start over in a remote place with a new name, a fresh life. Until the day a stranger tells you you’re being hunted for the sins of a royal ancestor who died centuries before you were born. You don’t believe him, until they come for you. Now you’re on the run. Every answer you need lies in a past you chose to erase. The only thing you know for sure is that others are about to die and you need those memories back. But first, you have to stay alive.
Read sample chapters here: https://toscalee.com/wp-content/uploa...
“An intricately woven tale that is intriguing and romantic, I literally couldn’t put it down.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout # 1 New York Times bestselling author
“Tosca Lee is a masterful storyteller who has created a rich and engaging tale of adventure, mystery, and loyalty in the face of perpetual betrayal, which kept me on edge from the first page until the last." -- Jobie Hughes, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Dark, tense, and gripping, The Progeny by Tosca Lee has all the ingredients thriller fans crave." -- Joe Moore, international bestselling co-author of The Blade and The Tomb
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I’M TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD AND MY NAME DOESN’T MATTER, BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT TO BE ERASED FOREVER.
When you wake up, you remember nothing. Not your name, or where you were born, or the faces of the people you knew. Just a single warning written to yourself before you forgot it all: Emily, it’s me. You. Don’t ask about the last two years… Don’t try to remember and don’t go digging. Your life depends on it. Other lives depend on it. You start over in a remote place with a new name, a fresh life. Until the day a stranger tells you you’re being hunted for the sins of a royal ancestor who died centuries before you were born. You don’t believe him, until they come for you. Now you’re on the run. Every answer you need lies in a past you chose to erase. The only thing you know for sure is that others are about to die and you need those memories back. But first, you have to stay alive.
Read sample chapters here: https://toscalee.com/wp-content/uploa...
“An intricately woven tale that is intriguing and romantic, I literally couldn’t put it down.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout # 1 New York Times bestselling author
“Tosca Lee is a masterful storyteller who has created a rich and engaging tale of adventure, mystery, and loyalty in the face of perpetual betrayal, which kept me on edge from the first page until the last." -- Jobie Hughes, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"Dark, tense, and gripping, The Progeny by Tosca Lee has all the ingredients thriller fans crave." -- Joe Moore, international bestselling co-author of The Blade and The Tomb
May 7, 2021
Family Update: An Engagement
My stepdaughter, Wynter (for whom the main character in The Line Between/A Single Lightis named), got engaged 💍 this week while vacationing in beautiful Washington. We are over the moon happy for her and her fiancé John, whom we love. These two are so good together and we cant wait for all that life has in store for this couple!
Congratulations, Wynter and John!
Congratulations, Wynter and John!
April 2, 2021
Win A Single Light
🎁 Enter to win one of 20 copies of A Single Light, my 2020 International Book Award winner and sequel to 2020 Silver Falchion winner The Line Between.
Enter at: http://bit.ly/SingleLightGiveaway
*U.S. Only*
About the book: 📕
In this gripping, high-octane sequel to The Line Between, which New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava calls “everything you want in a thriller,” cult escapee Wynter Roth and ex-soldier Chase Miller emerge from their bunker to find a country ravaged by disease.
Six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty-one others, Wynter and Chase emerge to an altered world. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they surfaced—the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the antibiotics her gravely ill friend, Julie, needs.
As the clock ticks down on Julie’s life, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine and answers. But what they find is not a nation on the cusp of recovery but one decimated by disease. What happened while they were underground?
With food and water in limited supply and their own survival in question, Chase and Wynter must venture further and further from the silo. They come face-to-face with a radically changed society, where communities scrabble to survive under rogue leaders and cities are war zones. As hope fades by the hour and Wynter learns the terrible truth of the last six months, she is called upon again to help save a nation she no longer recognizes—a place so chaotic she’s no longer sure it can even survive.
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March 1, 2021
New Giveaway: ISCARIOT
We're giving away 20 copies of Iscariot right here on Goodreads!
Enter by March 18 at:
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Iscariot humanizes Judas, the man whose very name is synonymous with betrayal.
Based on extensive research into the life and times of Judas Iscariot, this triumph of fiction storytelling revisits one of biblical history’s most maligned figures and brings the world he inhabited vividly to life.
In Jesus, Judas believes he has found the One—the promised Messiah and future king of the Jews, destined to overthrow Roman rule. Galvanized, he joins Nazarene’s followers, ready to enact the change he has waited for all his life. But soon Judas’s vision of a nation free from Rome is crushed by the inexplicable actions of Nazarene himself, who will not bow to social or religious convention—and seems, in the end, to even turn against his own people. At last, Judas confronts the fact that the master he loves is not the liberator he hoped for, but a man bent on a drastically different agenda.
Praised as “an absolute must-read” (New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker), Iscariot is the story of Judas, from his tumultuous childhood to his emergence as the man who betrayed Jesus. But even more, it is a singular and surprising view into the life of Jesus that forces us to reexamine everything we thought we knew about the most famous—and infamous—religious icons in history.
Enter to win one of 20 copies here:
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Enter by March 18 at:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Iscariot humanizes Judas, the man whose very name is synonymous with betrayal.
Based on extensive research into the life and times of Judas Iscariot, this triumph of fiction storytelling revisits one of biblical history’s most maligned figures and brings the world he inhabited vividly to life.
In Jesus, Judas believes he has found the One—the promised Messiah and future king of the Jews, destined to overthrow Roman rule. Galvanized, he joins Nazarene’s followers, ready to enact the change he has waited for all his life. But soon Judas’s vision of a nation free from Rome is crushed by the inexplicable actions of Nazarene himself, who will not bow to social or religious convention—and seems, in the end, to even turn against his own people. At last, Judas confronts the fact that the master he loves is not the liberator he hoped for, but a man bent on a drastically different agenda.
Praised as “an absolute must-read” (New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker), Iscariot is the story of Judas, from his tumultuous childhood to his emergence as the man who betrayed Jesus. But even more, it is a singular and surprising view into the life of Jesus that forces us to reexamine everything we thought we knew about the most famous—and infamous—religious icons in history.
Enter to win one of 20 copies here:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
