April is coming to a close and so is my Earth Month giveaway, where you can enter to win 5 romance novels in exchange for a $1 donation to Trees for the Future.

If you donate today, you have a very good chance of winning $20 worth of romance novels. Not only that, but it’s a very, very good cause that is addressing urgent problems that affect us and everyone else on Earth.

Enter the Earth Month Giveaway.

Here’s the Ugly Truth:

As I’m writing this, 18,228 people died of hunger today (It’s only about two in the afternoon on a Sunday, so probably at least a few thousand more will die before this article is published).

There are over 836 million undernourished people in the world right now.

Over 3 million tons of toxic chemicals were released into the environment this year.

1.6 million hectares (roughly 4 million acres) of forest was lost this year.

Over 13 million tons of CO2 was pumped into the atmosphere this year so far, contributing to climate change.

The ugly truth is that the Earth is dying, and humankind along with it. And if we don’t do something about it, there’s not going to be a happily ever after for anyone.

Source: http://www.worldometers.info/

Donate to Trees for the Future to fight world hunger and climate change.

This is all scary, and I’m not saying it’s going to be easy to fix all this, but one effective way to help is to donate to Trees for the Future.

Trees for the Future came up with a way to combat world hunger and climate change at the same time.

They created the Forest Garden, a sustainable, organic farming method that lets anyone optimize any piece of land from anywhere. It can produce more food and more profits for farmers without causing deforestation or polluting the Earth with harmful pesticides and fertilizers.

Forest Gardens produce more food than industrial monoculture without the bad side effects like pollution and desertification. Instead of contributing to climate change, Forest Gardens sequester carbon and heal the Earth– while also feeding more people.

Trees for the Future is teaching farmers the Forest Garden Approach all over the world, which allows these farmers to produce more food and income for their family and lift themselves out of poverty. But they can only reach their goal of helping 1 million people with our help.

It only costs 10 cents to plant one tree. So even a $1 donation can have an enormous positive impact, not only for people struggling to survive but also for our planet.

This is why I’m giving away 5 romance novels donated by 5 amazing authors in my Earth Month giveaway– and it’s ending April 30th.

Together, these romance novels are worth $20, and you can get them by simply donating $1 to Trees for the Future. $1 equals 5 entries into the giveaway– and you can get an extra entry by tweeting it.

One winner will get the following:

Bascomville by Mark Calde

Fiona: Origins by Maggie Shayne

The Knight’s Broken Promise by Nicole Locke

Alamaba Rain by Lana Campbell

Just a Fling by Eden Rayna

Bascomville by Mark Calde

Great love stories, like great loves, don’t come around often.



Welcome to Bascomville, the singular domain of

Max Bascom, the universe he has spun for himself from the raw materials of his surroundings.



This is Max’s journey from friend to lover. From seducer to seduced. From firstborn to prodigal.

From betrayer to betrayed.

And finally, from child to man.

Fiona: Origins by Maggie Shayne

An innocent child…

The research facility that is the subject of whispers and wild speculation burns to the ground. That same night, a little girl is found wandering alone, burned and sooty, wearing a hospital gown and a bracelet identifying her as SUBJECT 92751.

A lifetime of lies…

Fiona Fairweather has spent her entire life in the small Scottish town of Foyers on the shores of Loch Ness. But everything changes when she returns home from celebrating college graduation, to find her parents lying on the floor. With her final breaths, her mother tells the truth, that she wasn’t born to them, and that the truth about her origins could put her in grave danger.

A dangerous stranger…

Quinn Collins arrives from the States to investigate her parents’ deaths. Fiona is drawn to him in spite of the threat he represents. Can she trust him? Or has he come to fetch her back into captivity?

The Knight’s Broken Promise by Nicole Locke

Black Robert. The most feared of all King Edward’s men…

When an English knight approaches the charred ruins of her sister’s Scottish village, Gaira of Clan Colquhoun knows better than to trust this fierce-looking man. Yet, struggling to set her war-shaken world to rights, she has little choice.

Robert of Dent will see her to safety. He can promise nothing more. Never again will he make a vow like the one he broke years ago, even though Gaira’s fierce resilience makes him long to protect her.

But what will happen when Gaira discovers exactly who Robert is?

Alabama Rain by Lana Campbell

Alabama Rain Holden’s life is a dreadful and dangerous one as a thief of drugs for her father, drug lord Ken Holden. Rain hates her life, but she’s damned good at what she does. As a vampire with an acute sense of smell, she can sniff out any drug as well as a blood hound, enchant the human mule with the goods to be sold and relieve him or her of the product without the person never remembering the encounter.

Nate is incensed when he discovers Rain is a drug dealer operating on his turf. He embarks on a mission to catch her committing a crime so he can bring her before a vampire tribunal where she will pay for her crimes with her life. In his efforts to get the evidence Nate needs against Rain, he instead gets information he never bargained for. Once he learns her dark secret, that she’s been brutally forced into this life of crime by her maniacal father, Nate will stop at nothing to liberate her from her feral vampire father.

Just a Fling by Eden Rayna

Danielle:

I don’t do love. I don’t do romance. I don’t do meet-the-family. I do, however, do dancing and drinking and I will definitely do the cowboy who has sidled up beside me at the bar. And if I want to hook up with him again when he’s back in town next, I will. After all, it’s just a fling.

Kirk:

Damn but she looks good wearing my cowboy hat, hair all sexed up underneath it. I think next time I see her I’ll have to bring her one of her own to wear. Too bad our time together is sporadic since we live nine-hundred kilometres apart. After three months of daily phone calls and texts, I think it’s time we change that.



How to Enter

It only takes about two minutes to enter to win these 5 romance novels and a $1 donation.

All you have to do is:

Click here. Click on the entry that says “Donate $1 to Trees for the Future”. Open the hyperlink in a new tag. Donate through my fundraising page. Click Enter on Rafflecopter and get 5 entries (get a bonus entry by tweeting about it)

A $1 donation will plant 10 trees and give you a chance to win $20 worth of romance novels. So enter today and help change someone’s life.