Gold

**THIS TITLE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 7/1/12**

Advance praise for Chris Cleave’s Gold:

“Chris Cleave has written a novel that encompasses love, compassion, and tragedy through which emerges the goodness of mankind and the importance of friendship.” —Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT

“Gold is a marvelous and enveloping read.” —Jackie Belm, Tattered Cover, Denver, CO

“Gold is a breathtaking, multi-layered tale that has everything a good book needs: love, friendship, suspense, humor, and of course, Star Wars references.…Like Little Bee, when you finish Gold, you want to tell someone they HAVE to read this amazing book.” —Eric Sample, B & N, Cedar Hill, TX

Gold is the story of Zoe and Kate, world-class athletes who have been friends and rivals since their first day of Elite training. They’ve loved, fought, betrayed, forgiven, consoled, gloried, and grown up together. Now on the eve of London 2012, their last Olympics, both women will be tested to their physical and emotional limits. They must confront each other and their own mortality to decide, when lives are at stake: What would you sacrifice for the people you love, if it meant giving up the thing that was most important to you in the world?

Chris Cleave is the author of Incendiary and the #1 New York Times bestseller Little Bee. He lives with his wife and three children in Kingston-upon-Thames, England. Visit him at ChrisCleave.com or on Twitter @ChrisCleave.