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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.
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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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Read Unbound, Hardcore Inc Series #6 by Britt Jones @Brittjonesuthr #RLFblog #RomanticSuspense
He lost her once, he won’t the second time. Saving the beautiful redhead has become his obsession.
Britt, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Unbound.
Unbound, Hardcore Inc by Britt Jones
Genre Romantic Suspense Instalove
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): Hot Hot HotThe team’s sniper and scout, he’s always known the role he played on the team. The need to defend was a lesson beaten into him from an early age.
When he inadvertently leads the very scum he’s hunting to an innocent woman he can’t forgive himself. He will risk everything to save the woman he longs to call his own.
Authors note:
Books six through eight in the Hardcore Inc series happen concurrently. I made the decision to hold off releasing the last four books until I could do so as rapid releases ensuring the optimal satisfaction for readers. Starting in May the books will all be scheduled. Be sure to sign up for my newsletter to get preorder dates.
Where to buy Unbound, Hardcore Inc series book 6
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFNYBWCZ
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I write short and steamy instalove romance with a dash of danger to keep you on the edge of your seat and your heart racing. My heroes are protective and devoted. My heroines are strong and independent. The stories are hot! I currently live in the Big Apple where story inspiration is just a walk out the door. To find out more about my Hardcore Inc series and other releases, please join my newsletter – I promise not to stuff your inbox. Check out my webpage, too.
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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
StoryOrigin https://storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/e1777b9a-a396-11eb-9ba1-8f18f37f314a
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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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Adult Fairy Tale – The Cinderella Curse by Dee S Knight @DeeSKnight #RLFblog #Romance #AdultFairyTale
In Dee S Knight’s erotic Cinderella, a worldly Prince, a naïve Cindy, and an unassuming fairy godfather come together in a magical HEA ending.
Dee, 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.
The Cinderella Curse by Dee S Knight
Genre Erotic romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): XWhat’s your favorite down-home family style meal?
Well, the fact of the matter is I love good food, so I have many favorites, I suppose. My mama’s meatloaf with mashed potatoes is pure comfort food and I always loved the meatloaf sandwich with ketchup the next day. I never make meatloaf, maybe because I don’t think I could do it as well as Mom. But I do make a mean pork chop, and that’s one of my favorite meals. Nice thick loin chop with mashed potatoes (notice a theme there?) and maybe broccoli with cheese? YUM!
What is your go-to meal when you dine out?
Steak. When I cook a nice rib eye at home, I don’t always get it right and it makes a mess on the stove. When I eat it out I don’t have anything to clean except my plate.
Who is your “book boyfriend” (that hottie you read about and drool over)?
I’m married to the nicest, sweetest beta man. But I love reading about alphas. A recent hottie is Matthew Zola in Nicole French’s Rose Gold series. What a great hero!
Describe the perfect vacation.
Scotland with a car to roam around and lots of time and money. I haven’t been to a single place in Scotland that I wouldn’t love to go back. Skye is magical, Edinburgh is so fun, Inverness is beautiful, and everyplace in between is wonderful. I’d love to go back.
When you read for pleasure, what kind of books do you choose?
Almost always something with romance. But I also love thrillers and a solid mystery.
Where to buy The Cinderella Curse
Amazon Kindle Unlimited https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R1YSQ8S
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A few years ago, Dee S Knight began writing, making getting up in the morning fun. During the day, her characters killed people, fell in love, became drunk with power, or sober with responsibility. And they had sex, lots of sex.
After a while, Dee split her personality into thirds. She writes as Anne Krist for sweeter romances, and Jenna Stewart for ménage and shifter stories. All three of her personas are found on the Nomad Authors website. And all three offer some of the best romance you can find! Also, once a month, look for Dee’s Charity Sunday blog posts, where your comment can support a selected charity.
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Read The Count’s Amnesiac Wife by Cathleen Ross@cathleenross1 #RLFblog #Contemporary #Romance
Count Lorenzo di Fontini doesn’t want his ex-wife back. The trouble is Sophia has developed amnesia. Imagine Lorenzo’s surprise when he finds out she thinks she’s eighteen and a virgin.
Cathleen, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about The Count’s Amnesiac Wife.
The Count’s Amnesiac Wife by Cathleen Ross
Genre Contemporary
Book heat level : RCount Lorenzo di Fontini doesn’t want his ex-wife back. After all, he’s been separated from her for a year, but he vows to her ailing father he will take her in after she collapses, and look after her until she is better. The trouble is Sophia has developed amnesia. Imagine Lorenzo’s surprise when he finds out she thinks she’s eighteen and she adores him.
What’s your favorite down-home family style meal?
I love a big feast that I’ve cooked for family and friends. I usually cook for days and get my gorgeous best girlfriend to do a dessert. It’s always a huge celebration for three generations.
Who is your “book boyfriend” (that hottie you read about and drool over)?
I’ve got a thing for my heroic 23rd grandfather Sir William Marshal at the moment. I’m very in to astute, honourable heroes.
Describe the perfect vacation.
I love Port Douglas with its endless beach.
What are your hobbies?
I love to read, read, read.
What kinds of things do you read when you’re researching a new book?
I try to read the original sources and then I buy the literary texts. I’ll also read other authors who write involved historical novels but they have to be ones who get the history right.
Where to buy The Count’s Amnesiac Wife
Publisher Cathleen Ross
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Author of romance fiction, Cathleen Ross, likes to write about the quirky side of life. She thought she was a “Sweet” writer until she was asked to write her first erotic story, sold it immediately and she never looked back. Her first novel, Man Hunt sold to Black Lace (Penguin/Random House). Man Hunt became the number one best selling erotic novel on the Publisher’s website in 2006 and has been translated into German. She also loves writing historical stories. Highlander is the first in her Highlander Forbidden Fantasy series. When she is not self publishing she writes for Entangled Publishing.
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