Voyager Valentines: a matchmaking contest

It's February, and that means love is in the air. To celebrate, several Harper Voyager authors have set up dating profiles for the characters in their books. Suggest a match and you could win a prize!

Since Darkhaven hasn't been released yet, I'm giving away some of my favourite books. To enter, read the two dating profiles below (featuring two characters from Darkhaven). Then match either of them with a character from one of the other participating blogs and comment here to be entered into the giveaway. The winner can choose any two of the following paperbacks (or a £10/$15 Amazon gift card if you don't trust my awesome taste in reading material).

Many of the other authors are also running giveaways, so if you suggest matches for their characters, you'll have more chances to win prizes. The event runs until the end of February, so get matchmaking!

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Dating profile: Ayla Nightshade

AGE: 18

JOB/CAREER: Does arguing with my father count as a career? I certainly spend enough time doing it.

WHAT YOU DO FOR FUN: Fly, when I can. I love flying.

GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: I have a lot of theoretical knowledge in a vast range of subjects, and virtually no practical experience at anything. So I'm either highly accomplished or utterly useless, depending how you look at it.

MOST TREASURED POSSESSION: My brother Myrren. Not that I think I own him, you understand. I just don't care a great deal about objects. Myrren is the only part of my life I'd really miss if it were gone.

IF YOU WERE AN ANIMAL, YOU'D BE: I am an animal, of a kind – at least some of the time. I can take on the form of a winged horse.

FIRST CRUSH: I'd rather not say. It was a terrible misjudgment on my part.

FAVOURITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY: Any occasion when my mother was there. I miss her.

EVER BEEN IN A FIGHT OR PRISON? No. My father won't even let me learn how to defend myself, which is frankly ridiculous.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF CHILDREN? I try not to. If you had a family situation like mine, you'd understand.

GREATEST FEAR: That this is it. The rest of my life. Forever failing to live up to my father's expectations, and nothing ever changing.

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Dating profile: Tomas Caraway

AGE: 23

JOB/CAREER: I used to be a member of the Helm in Darkhaven, which meant I was part warrior and part bodyguard, I suppose. Now I'm … sort of in between jobs.

WHAT YOU DO FOR FUN: 'Fun' is a strong word. I spend a fair bit of time in the vicinity of inns.

GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Being accepted into the Helm. Of course, that also turned out to be my greatest failure, so …

MOST TREASURED POSSESSION: Used to be my sword, but for obvious reasons – namely the lack of functional blade – that's no longer the case. Still, it's not as if I own much else.

IF YOU WERE AN ANIMAL, YOU'D BE: Probably a chicken. Even when its life is over, it's too stupid to give up and die.

FIRST CRUSH: Ayla Nightshade. Of course, that was before I failed her in the worst way possible.

FAVOURITE CHILDHOOD MEMORY: In retrospect, I can't think of anything that wasn't good about my childhood. Of course, I spent most of it dreaming I was somewhere else. Funny how that works.

EVER BEEN IN A FIGHT OR PRISON? Usually both. Depends how the evening goes.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF CHILDREN? I always planned to have a family. Don't see that happening now, though.

GREATEST FEAR: It's already come true. Now I just have to live with it.

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Now, here are the other participating authors to visit:

Katherine Harbour (author of THORN JACK, available now)

Nancy K. Wallace (author of AMONG WOLVES, coming May 2015)

Ingrid Seymour (author of IGNITE THE SHADOWS, coming April 2015)

Brooke Johnson (author of THE BRASS GIANT, coming May 2015)

Jack Heckel (author of ONCE UPON A RHYME and HAPPILY NEVER AFTER, available now)

Bishop O'Connell (author of THE STOLEN, available now)

Andy Livingstone (author of HERO BORN, coming April 2015)

Alison Stine (author of SUPERVISION, coming April 2015)

John Ayliff (author of BELT THREE, coming June 2015)

Lexie Dunne (author of SUPERHEROES ANONYMOUS, available now)

Laura Liddell Nolen (author of THE ARK, coming March 2015)

Christi Whitney (author of GREY, coming April 2015)

Graeme Talboys (author of STEALING INTO WINTER, coming July 2015)

Terry Newman (author of DETECTIVE STRONGOAK AND THE CASE OF THE DEAD ELF, available now)

And if you'd like to be in with a chance to win a copy of Darkhaven when it releases, plus some other prizes, you can sign up to my mailing list.

[Image attribution: Photo by James Armstrong, used under CC/No changes]