ARCS! Pretty! (The cover is actually way brighter than this. For some reason, this picture is coming out looking faded, and the ARC cover is a bit more pale then the real one will be, at any rate.)
You know what this means, folks! Giveaway!
But first, the long-overdue description of this book:
RITES OF SPRING (BREAK)
An Ivy League Novel
From “witty and endearing” to “impossible to put down,” the critics have given elite marks to Diana Peterfreund’s Secret Society Girl and Under the Rose. Now, in a wildly captivating new novel, Amy “Bugaboo” Haskel and her fellow Rose & Grave knights are trading cold, gray, hyperintellectual New Haven for an annual rite of spring (well, early March) in Florida.
For Amy, a week of R&R on her secret society’s private island should be all fun in the sun—and an escape from an on-campus feud with a rival society that’s turned disturbingly personal. But along with her SPF 30 and a bikini, Amy is bringing a suitcase full of issues to remote Cavador Key. Graduation from Eli University looms, not to mention buckets of unfinished business with a former flame and—most pressing of all—the sudden, startling transformation of a mysterious Rose & Grave patriarch from sheerly evil to utterly…appealing?
Just when Amy thinks Spring Break can’t get any less relaxing, a wacky “accident” puts everyone on edge. And that’s only the beginning, as Amy starts to suspect that someone has infiltrated the island. With some major Rose & Grave secrets to be exposed, and the potential fallout enough to take down one of America’s most loathsome figureheads, what she can’t know is that the party crasher is deadly serious about making sure “Bugaboo” doesn’t get back to Eli alive….
And, just so you guys can see the complete awesomeness that is the cover, here’s front and back!
Fun, huh? Leave your name here, and I shall draw a winner tomorrow.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Oooh! I would look so AWESOME on that cover!
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March 20th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Be-u-ti-ful! Congrats! Kwana, leaving her name here.
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March 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am
That is a great cover. Erika (me) would ove to get her hands on that!
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March 20th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Oooh! Oooh! Ooooh!
UtR left me dreading the wait for the next book …
ILuvLA
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March 20th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Oh, preeetty! My fingers are itching to get one.
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March 20th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Ohhh…I would love a copy too. (But if you don’t want to ship overseas, I understand.
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March 20th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Oooh, yay! It’s gorgeous! Put me in the pot!
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March 20th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Yay giveaway time. I LOVE the cover and it sounds really good.
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March 20th, 2008 at 11:19 am
thanks, guys.
Angelle, I ship overseas, you just get the slow boat rate.
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March 20th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Oh, Diana! Congrats! You must be so excited to have the ARCs! They look fabulous and I know it’s going to be a fantastic read!
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March 20th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Wow, wow, and wow again! Awesome art, awesome text. Is is too much to hope for a companion piece to my UTR ARC?
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March 20th, 2008 at 11:42 am
ooooo….Pretty, I want one!!!! I have been dying for the next book since I finished the last one
Nessa is putting her name in the pot to get one 
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March 20th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Don’t put my name in, because I plan on pre-ordering. Just wanted to say the cover looks awesome.
Can’t wait to see Patrick’s version.
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March 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Putting my name it – can’t wait to read it
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March 20th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Totally made of awesome! It looks awesome and the back cover blurb rocks! I’m so excited about this book!!!
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March 20th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Congrats Diana!!!! They look great!
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March 20th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Ooh, I can’t wait to read it!
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March 20th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Tossing my hat (and maybe even my whole self) in the ring.
BTW–I think that if Angelle wins, you should deliver it personally. Okonomiyaki…. mmmmmmm.
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March 20th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Congrats! It looks awesome! Would love to win a copy!! Thanks!!
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March 20th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Gorgeous cover! I want!
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March 20th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Gorgeous cover and love the blurb. Of course I’ve been impatiently patient waiting for the book to come out.
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March 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Fabulous cover. Love the series as well.
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March 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
It looks gorgeous, Diana! Congratulations!
(I already won an ARC from Vicki, so leave my name out of the pot.)
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March 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I love the cover. It’s just what I needed when I can still see piles of snow from the window by my desk. Slowly but surely it will go away, even here in Michigan, but does it really have to take so long?
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March 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Me, me, me, me!!!
Because you know I’ll buy multiple copies even if I win.
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March 20th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Gorgie! Can’t wait to see it.
shannon
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March 20th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Love the cover, count me in!
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March 20th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Awesome cover
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March 20th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I. CAN’T. WAIT. FOR. THIS. BOOK!
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March 20th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Oh. I just discovered your books last week and I love them. Please tell me Poe is in this book!
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March 20th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Throwing my name in
Have a lovely day!
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March 20th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
That’s a GORGEOUS cover…congrats!
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March 21st, 2008 at 7:50 am
Yay!!! You already know I love the cover. I’m so excited for you!
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March 21st, 2008 at 8:08 am
Congratulations! I can’t wait for this one:)
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March 21st, 2008 at 8:21 am
What a great description! I can’t wait to read it! This is Brittany and I would love a copy please.
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March 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am
Very fun and pretty cover, Diana! Congratulations!
Christina
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March 21st, 2008 at 9:57 am
Pleeeaaase don’t make me wait until June!
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March 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am
in the event you do two drawings – add my name as well. Met you at Heather’s Nutcracker play back in December.
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March 21st, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Absolutely fabulous!!!! CONGRATS!!!
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March 21st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Add me to the list! (Phyllis)
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March 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 am
love the last two want this one
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March 27th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Did I miss the giveaway? Could you PLEASE do another one (and please let me win?!)Woohoo! I can’t wait to read it!
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March 28th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I’m late, but wanted to say how gorgeous your cover is Diana!
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March 29th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Ack! I’m always a day late and a dollar short!
I just finished Under the Rose last night. I was so sad to have finished the book. I need more of Amy/Bugaboo! This book can’t be released soon enough! (Oh, and the cover is fab!)
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March 30th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
i would love to have that book. (Divya)
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March 30th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
i would love to have that book. (Divya)
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