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Win copies of Neil Gaiman-esque debut The Summer That Melted Everything

If your reading group loves Neil Gaiman, we have the perfect book for you this summer!

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heat wave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil.

When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the country town of Breathed, Ohio, nobody quite expects that he will turn up. They especially don’t expect him to turn up as a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy.

The Blisses believe the boy, who calls himself Sal, is a runaway from a nearby farm town. Then, as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal — and riled by the feverish heat wave baking the town from the inside out — there are some around town who start to believe that maybe Sal is exactly who he claims to be.

To celebrate the release of The Summer That Melted Everything, we have three sets of copies to give away to three reading groups who are active on social media. The lucky winners will also have the chance to send their questions directly to the author, Tiffany McDaniel, or to have her ‘Skype’ into their meeting. So if you want to shake up your reading group’s routine, here’s your chance!

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