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Read Home to River Edge the new #SecondChanceRomance by Nan Reinhardt @NanReinhardt #RLFblog #SmallTownRomance
Sometimes the universe sends you a sign. In Nan Reinhardt’s newest novel, Home to River’s Edge, high school sweethearts, Jazz and Eli have lived half their lives apart. Can they reinvent themselves back in the town where it all began?
Nan, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Home to River’s Edge.
Home to River’s Edge by Nan Reinhardt
Genre Contemporary small-town romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG
She’s determined to start a new chapter, so why is she still drawn to a man from her past?
When Jasmine Weaver, the chief of staff to a powerful D.C. congresswoman, chose integrity, she didn’t anticipate ringing in the New Year disgraced, unemployed, and sleeping in her childhood bedroom. Now back in River’s Edge, Indiana, identical triplet Jazz has her sisters’ support while she plans her next steps. She agrees to lead the committee for their high school’s fifteenth reunion, never dreaming that her co-chair is the man who broke her teenage heart.
As the new CEO of Walker Construction, Elias Walker has taken the family business to new levels of success. He’s buried himself in work to ease the grief of losing his fiancé several years earlier and wants nothing more than to be a carpenter again. Elias grudgingly agrees to co-chair the high school’s reunion committee, but when Jazz Weaver blows into town, suddenly anything seems possible.
These high school sweethearts have lived half their lives apart. Can they reinvent themselves back in the town where it all began?
Why did you write this book?
The Weaver triplets were secondary characters in previous River’s Edge novels and as I was winding down the Lange Brothers series, they were the ones who started talking to me. So, I gave each one a story and voila, the Weaver Sister trilogy was born (If only it was that easy, eh?).
What is your favorite genre to read?
I do love to read contemporary romance, but I also love cozies, and romantic and political suspense.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
David Langston from the novel The Harvester by Indiana author Gene Stratton-Porter. He was the first romantic hero I ever read and I fell in love with him immediately.
What are you working on at the moment?
Book 1 in my new series for Tule Publishing, The Walker Family
What books will we see from you in coming months?
The next two books in the Weaver Sisters trilogy, Meet Me in River’s Edge and Christmas in River’s Edge will release in August and October respectively—I sure hope readers will fall in love with these triplets. I had a ball writing their stories!
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Nan Reinhardt is a USA Today bestselling author of sweet, small-town romantic fiction for Tule Publishing. Her day job is working as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader, however, writing is Nan’s first and most enduring passion. She can’t remember a time in her life when she wasn’t writing—she wrote her first romance novel at the age of ten and is still writing, but now from the viewpoint of a wiser, slightly rumpled, woman in her prime. Nan lives in the Midwest with her husband of nearly 50 years, where they split their time between a house in the city and a cottage on a lake.
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Lyrical Embrace by Amber Daulton @amberdaulton1 #RLFblog #RomanticSuspense
Erica ran away for a fresh start and found the rock star of her dreams. Finding love when you least expect it, the theme of Lyrical Embrace by Amber Daulton.
Amber, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.
Lyrical Embrace by Amber Daulton
Genre Romantic Suspense
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): 3 Flames/PG-13
Out-of-work violinist Erica Timberly decides enough is enough. She leaves her abusive boyfriend and flees the big city, but then her car breaks down in the middle of the night. Though wary of men, she accepts help from Dylan Haynes, a stranger driving by on the road, and soon recognizes him as the sexy former drummer of her favorite indie rock band. Maybe, just maybe, her run of bad luck is finally turning around.
Music teacher Dylan Haynes knows Erica is in trouble, and her black eye is only the first clue. The stubborn yet vulnerable woman needs a friend, but he’s determined to give her everything she deserves.
Will Erica listen to the music in her heart and trust Dylan, or will her past always threaten her future?
Where to buy Lyrical Embrace
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Amber Daulton is the author of the romantic-suspense series Arresting Onyx and several standalone novellas. Her books are published through Daulton Publishing, The Wild Rose Press, and Books to Go Now and are available in ebook, print on demand, audio, and foreign language formats.
She lives in North Carolina with her husband and demanding cats.
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What Alice Treemont gives Jace Constant for dinner, in All About Charming Alice by J Arlene Culiner @JArleneCuliner#RLFblog #Contemporary Romance
In J Arlene Culiner’s recent contemporary romance release, All About Charming Alice, the heroine, Alice Treemont, is a herpetologist who protects snakes and rescues dogs. She lives in a rattling old house in the Nevada desert and cooks vegetarian meals.
Jace Constant, a well-known writer, is renting a room in Alice’s house, and he’s an out-and-out carnivore… or at least that’s what Alice thinks: “You look like a carnivore to me, not a vegetarian.” A cannibal, a woman-eater.
True, Jace doesn’t like the desert, dust, dogs, dog hair, and snakes terrify him, but vegetarian fare? Well… he’s willing to try anything!
J Arlene, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.
All About Charming Alice by J Arlene Culiner
Genre Contemporary Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG13Alice Treemont has no intention of falling in love. Living in Blake’s Folly, a semi-ghost town, she cooks vegetarian meals, rescues unwanted dogs, and protects the most unloved creatures on earth: snakes. What man would share those interests?
Jace Constant is in Nevada, doing research for his new book, but he won’t be staying. He’s disgusted by desert dust on his fine Italian shoes and dog hair on his cashmere sweaters. As for snakes, he doesn’t just despise them: they terrify him.
So why does the air sizzle each time Alice and Jace meet? A romance would entail far too many compromises.
Let’s chat about what to eat
Alice Treemont is in her forties. In 2022, she lives in the semi-ghost town of Blake’s Folly, Nevada. She is a vegetarian because she wants to harm no creature. What sort of food does she prepare? How about zucchini fritters made by mixing together whole-wheat flour, eggs, salt, cumin, coriander, and black pepper? They taste wonderful with fresh yogurt and mint.
And why not try squares of buttery oven baked polenta (coarsely ground cornmeal) topped with vegetables that have been roasted with fresh garlic, rosemary, and a few drops of olive oil?
What is the worst meal Alice has ever eaten? Like her author, J. Arlene Culiner, being served a plateful of meatloaf is a nightmare come true.
As for breakfast, Alice loves a big cup of milky coffee, homemade blueberry muffins, coddled eggs (you have to try those), homemade crusty bread and fresh butter. Yummy!
Drinks? Jace Constant loves fine wines, and Alice certainly shares his taste.
As for her animals, Alice feeds the dogs good kibble. The author also feeds kibble to her big beastie, Virgule, and that certainly seems to work perfectly. He’s fourteen years old, but he’s still good at helping me solve grammar problems.
Where to buy All About Charming Alice (The Wild Rose Press)
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Writer, photographer, social critical artist, and impenitent teller of tall tales, J Arlene Culiner, was born in New York and raised in Toronto. She has crossed much of Europe on foot, has lived in a mud house on the Great Hungarian Plain, a Bavarian castle, a Turkish cave dwelling, a haunted house on the English moors, and on a Dutch canal. She now resides in a 400-year-old former inn in a French village of no interest where, much to local dismay, she protects spiders, snakes, and all weeds. She particularly enjoys incorporating into mysteries, non-fiction, and romances, her experiences in out-of-the-way communities, and her conversations with very odd characters.
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Rob’s Rescues is a non-profit organization in Georgia helping people in need care for and feed their pets. It was founded in 2014 by a then nine-year-old boy. Rob’s Rescues is dedicated to collecting pet food for people in need to reduce shelter surrenders, and to advocating for the adoption of shelter pets. Rob writes monthly articles advocating for shelter animals in the Around About Local Media magazine publications. His column was first published in 2014. He also has pet food collection sites for people in need in the community and interviews amazing people. His interviews appear online once they are published in his column.
Rob volunteers for Pet Buddies Food Pantry, the Cherokee County Animal Shelter and Cobb County Animal Control and collects pet food for these organizations and the communities they serve. He also wants to bring attention to smaller, rural shelters. Mostly he wants to get kids to be Rob’s Rangers to teach kids that they can help shelter animals. Rob has also talked to kids in a classroom setting.
Rob’s Rescues is a Non-Profit Corporation and all donations are tax deductible.
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Get ready to fall hard for this Rockstar romance from Serena James Chase #RLFblog #FreeBook #NewAdult Contemporary Romance
When your totally hot and totally off-limits rockstar client offers to drive you home, what’s the worst kind of mistake you make in only one night? Turns out, it’s a big one! But it might the best kind.
Serena, I’m happy to host you on Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Tell us how to get Only Tonight free.
Only Tonight by Serena James Chase
Genre New Adult Contemporary; Rockstar Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): RCharlie Archer can’t believe her luck. By this time tomorrow, her overbearing boss will be miles away in London promoting their new client, the three-man rock band August Company, and wreaking havoc on her other personal assistant’s life.
But she really gets lucky when the band’s frontman, rockstar Evan Parker, offers her a ride home in his limo.
They live miles apart. Their lives are completely different. He’s a star and she’s a nobody in the music business, but it’s only one kiss and it’s only tonight.
Get ready to fall hard for Charlie and Evan’s story in this quick and steamy August Company Rockstars Prequel!
Available in the following formats: Mobi (Kindle), epub (Nook + other readers)
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Serena James Chase is the bestselling author of dark and daring contemporary and fantasy romances, including Everything You…, herbillionaire romance series, and her upcoming mafia romantic suspense series, Love Dangerously. Serena’s stories are always steamy and not like most romances you’ve read before. She delivers those hard-earned happy-ever-afters…even if it takes a little while.
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He’s been in love with his best friend his entire life but will telling her ruin everything? Just Friends by Evelyn Jeannie Hall @JeannieHallAuth #RLFblog #FreeBook #SteamyRomance #NewAdultRomance
As Benjamin Torres accelerated his ancient Tacoma away from his college campus, he stole hungry peeks of his best friend at every opportunity. Said best friend, Katrina Farrell, looked as mouthwatering as usual. With her ocean blue eyes, curly copper hair, and curvy in all the right places physique, she’d been the subject of both his sleepy wet dreams and wide-awake fantasies ever since he’d hit puberty.
Not that she knew that.
Evelyn, I’m happy to host you on Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, host and owner of this blog. Tell us how to get Just Friends for free.
Just Friends by Evelyn Jeannie Hall
Genre: Steamy Contemporary Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): RHe’s in love with his best friend.
What’s so terrible about that?
Nothing… If there might ever be a chance of her returning those feelings.
Benjamin has known Kat all his life, but once puberty hit, she started starring in all his most explicit dreams. Why hasn’t he told her? Because she’s never treated him like anything other than her nerdy, brotherly BFF.
ow that they’re about to graduate college, should he risk ruining the closeness they share by telling her the truth? Or will not telling her carry worse consequences than he ever could’ve imagined?
WARNING: this story is an open-ended prequel for my Big Apple Billionaires Series and contains nerve inducing wildlife sightings, Spanish (and English) cuss words, the ill-advised mixing of smores with brandy, and a naughty R-rated dream.
Available in the following formats: MOBI, EPUB, and PDF
Where to get Just Friends
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Evelyn Jeannie Hall specializes in cinnamon roll heroes. Whether self-made billionaires, members of law enforcement or more, if you’re into men who are tough yet endearing, then you’ve come to the right place. They’re all scrumptiously hot, sincerely protective, seriously sweet, yet willing and able to turn up the heat to the steamiest of levels.
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Jamie bares all in Anything You Want by Tina Donahue @tinadonahue #RLFblog #Contemporary
Jamie’s visit to a hedonistic resort to celebrate her 30th birthday turns seriously sexy and life-changing in Tina Donahue’s contemporary menage Anything You Want. And boy-oh-boy does Jamie get what she wants when hot-as-hell billionaires Creed and Tav make certain this is one birthday she’ll never forget… and will cherish forever.
Tina, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.
Anything You Want by Tina Donahue
Genre contemporary menage
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): RAt a hedonistic resort, her indecent cravings are about to be sated…
With the big three-O only days away, Jamie’s had it with dieting, exercise, and being alone. Off she goes to Wicked Desires, a decadent Caribbean resort where clothing is optional, carnal appetites rule, and food, especially chocolate, is celebrated. If only she had a guy to indulge with…
How about two? Billionaires Creed and Tav are checking out ideas for their new video game. The play features a resort where anything goes and an unlikely heroine as the star. Jamie’s luscious curves and sweet vulnerability make her the perfect type to base their game on. Since she’s also in IT—having put her dream to create candy on hold—she understands their lingo.
Hell, their desires are perfectly in tune with hers, whether it’s food play during meals, punishment in the discipline room, or a romantic evening on the beach.
When it comes to sweet delights and these two hunks…who says she can’t have anything she wants?
Let’s bare it all and chat about what to wear
First, what is your name and how old are you?
I’m Jamie. How old am I? Seriously? *sigh* You would ask that. I’m about to hit the big three-O. *sigh*
What is the time period in which you live?
Contemporary.
Considering the role you play in society, what is expected for you to wear?
Since I’m in IT (Information Technology) what I wear would be anything that’s not sexy or revealing.
Do you make your own clothing?
LOL, god no. I can code, but sew? LOL
When you wear something different, who’s the first person who notices?
Well… since I’ve hooked up with Tav and Creed, my luscious billionaires, I guess the answer would be them.
Tell us your favorite thing to wear.
Nothing when I’m around my guys.
When others see you what is their first impression?
Dunno and don’t care. I used to before meeting Tav and Creed. But now, with them, I only care what they see in me.
What do you wear to sleep?
Seriously? When I’m with my two hotter-than-hell billionaires, I don’t wear anything. I’m not crazy. 😊
Does anyone help you dress (other than a lover)?
Nope. Having Creed and Tav helping me undress is good enough.
Have you ever worn:
a uniform
Nope… unless you consider an underwire bra part of a uniform. Then, yeah, I have. Totally hate them, but what are you gonna do for support?
a costume
Sure, as a kid on Halloween.
a disguise
Nope, but during my horrible high school years, I wish I could have.
an outfit for the opposite gender
Working in a so-called ‘man’s field’, meaning IT, is bad enough. I don’t want to look like a guy, too.Tell us what your author wears when writing about you.
Aw, Tina – bless her heart – loves to go totally casch. Sweats in the winter, shorts and tank tops in the summer, no makeup either. Most of the time she doesn’t even comb her hair. She’s my hero.
If your author has a pet, is the pet ever dressed in clothing?
Now that would be cute, but no. Tina had a pet – LKB (short for Little Kitty Baby) – but LKB passed. A sad, sad day. However, when LKB was around there was no way in hell anyone, not even Superwoman, could have made that cat put on anything. If they’d tried, there would have been serious scratching and gallons of blood.
Where to buy Anything You Want
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Tina’s an Amazon and international bestselling novelist who writes passionate romance for every taste – ‘heat with heart’ – for traditional publishers and indie. Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, Romantic Times and numerous online sites have praised her work. She’s won Readers’ Choice Awards, was named a finalist in the EPIC competition, received a Book of the Year award, The Golden Nib Award, awards of merit in the RWA Holt Medallion competitions, and second place in the NEC RWA contests. She’s featured in the Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Before penning romances, she worked at a major Hollywood production company in Story Direction.
On a less serious note she’s an admitted and unrepentant chocoholic, brakes for Mexican restaurants, and has been known to moan like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally while wolfing down tostadas. She’s flown a single-engine airplane (freaking scary), rewired an old house using an ‘electricity for dummies’ book, and is horribly shy despite the hot romances she writes.
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