Read Desert Rose the new #SmallTownRomance by J Arlene Culiner @JArleneCuliner #RLFblog #Contemporary

Two secretive people: it’s hard to know what they’re thinking or feeling, and that makes falling in love a definite challenge!

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 Desert Rose.

Desert Rose by J Arlene Culiner

Genre Contemporary Small Town Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): Sensual

Secrets are the best protection against love.

Rose Badger is the local flirt, and if the other inhabitants of backwoods Blake’s Folly, Nevada, don’t approve, she couldn’t care less. With a disastrous marriage and a dead-end career far behind her, settling down is the last thing she intends to do. Newcomer Jonah Livingstone is intriguing, but with his complicated life, he’s off limits for anything other than friendship. Besides, Rose has a secret world of her own—one she won’t give up for any man.

The last person geologist Jonah Livingstone expected to meet in a semi-ghost town is the sparkling and lovely Rose Badger. But Rose, always surrounded by many admirers, doesn’t seem inclined to choose a favorite. So why fret? Jonah keeps his personal life well hidden…and that’s the best way to avoid disappointment.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/tHPrIciT0XU

Why did you write this book?

Once upon a time, I found myself in a clapboard, rusty trailer, semi-ghost town in Nevada, where an ever-buffeting wind dragged dust across the frozen ground, rattled grasses, and set the doors of abandoned shacks tapping. The hotel I stayed in was a rundown has-been: ceilings soared high, and the lumpy, almost colorless wallpaper was surely a century old. In the hotel’s bar, a talentless band whined out bad country music, and eccentric locals dished up tall tales, wry humor, and suspicion.

It was a singular community, quite magical, and I’ve recreated it as Blake’s Folly, the setting for three romances: A Room in Blake’s Folly, All About Charming Alice, and Desert Rose.

What is your favorite genre to read?

I love reading history. A book that combines literary travel and history gets my undivided attention.

Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?

Flora Post in Stella Gibbon’s Cold Comfort Farm is a favorite. She is brisk, efficient, intelligent, but also has a wonderful sense of humor (so did Stella Gibbons, obviously).

What are you working on at the moment?

I’m finishing up Words for Patty Jo. It’s a romance, it’s women’s literature, and it is rather more literary than my other romances. I’m also working on a book of satirical cartoons.

What books will we see from you in coming months?

Hopefully, a book of my own cartoons.

Where to buy Desert Rose

Universal Buy Link https://books2read.com/RosesDesert

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Writer, photographer, social critical artist, musician, and occasional actress, J Arlene Culiner, was born in New York and raised in Toronto. She has crossed much of Europe on foot, has lived in a Hungarian mud house, a Bavarian castle, a Turkish cave-dwelling, on a Dutch canal, and in a haunted house on the English moors. She now resides in a 400-year-old former inn in a French village of no interest and, much to local dismay, protects all creatures, especially spiders and snakes. She particularly enjoys incorporating into short stories, mysteries, narrative non-fiction, and romances, her experiences in out-of-the-way communities, and her conversations with strange characters.
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