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Know the Hero from Carnal Transgression by Faye Hall @FayeHall79 #RLFblog #Historical #RomanticSuspense
When Constance’s life comes under threat in Faye Hall’s new Historical Romantic Suspense, Carnal Trangression, Seamus has to choose between following the law and protecting the woman he loves from a killer.Faye, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! We’re excited to find out more about your hero, but first, tell us about Carnal Transgression.
Carnal Transgression by Faye Hall
Genre Historical Romantic Suspense
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): MConstance Dunbar is desperate to discover who killed her sister. Her plea for help is ignored by the local police, so she advertises for a private investigator. Seamus Tynedale answers the ad, and she immediately recognizes him as the friendly stranger whose arms held her so tenderly as she wept after her sister’s death.
Seamus longed to be reunited with the dark-haired beauty who’d kissed him in the churchyard. When he ends up working for her as a private investigator, he knows that his position as a police constable needs to remain a secret due to her mistrust of the department.
As Seamus hunts for the murderer, he finds himself lured into a den of secrets and lies tracing back eighteen years to Ireland, and it all seems to be connected to Constance. Seamus delves into Constance’s past, hoping to understand the secrets she’s so intent on keeping hidden. What he finds is a passion that ignites his heart and captivates his senses.
When Constance’s life comes under threat, Seamus has to choose between following the law and protecting the woman he loves from a killer. Will he be able to safeguard Constance, or will he lose her to the evil that seems to have followed her to Australia?
Know the Hero from Carnal Transgression
Here are some fun questions to help us know your hero.
It’s late, he’s bored. What does he do?
Go for a walk.
What kind of food would he impulse buy if hungry?
Fresh bread.
Describe the kind of clothes he prefers to wear.
Jeans and cotton shirt.
Does he know how to fix things?
Yes, he’s very skilled.
He tried to do something and it went badly. Tell us about it.
He’s been having trouble solving a case and he’s getting quite frustrated, so a walk in the cool night air usually helps to clear his mind and collect his thoughts.
How does he act around children he doesn’t know?
He keeps to himself mostly.
What is he like first thing in the morning?
Usually in need of a coffee.
How does he handle things when in a “proper” social situation?
Quietly yet politely.
Valet or takes care of himself?
He takes care of himself.
Necktie/cravat or open shirt?
Open shirt unless he’s in uniform.
Sleeves buttoned or rolled up?
Rolled up unless he’s in uniform.
Powdered wig or natural hair?
He has natural reddish hair.
Carriage or horseback?
Probably horseback, but he’s very capable of driving a dray wagon when needed.
Where to buy Carnal Transgression
Publisher https://4thavenuepress.com.au/product/carnal-transgression
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/carnal-transgression-1Faye Hall Social Media
Faye Hall is an author of steamy Australian Historical Romantic Suspense novels, including the Sins of the Virtuous series. Born and raised in North Queensland, Australia, she uses the tales of local history, and the struggles and adventures of her own family, to bring her characters to life in a uniquely, rural setting.
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Peek behind the cover of A Room in Blake’s Folly by J Arlene Culiner @JArleneCuliner #RLFblog #Western Historical to #Contemporary Romance
Back in 1889, when Blake’s Folly boasted three silver mines, many saloons and brothels, the adventurer, Westley Cranston, fell in love with Sookie Lacey a former prostitute. Their powerful romance was doomed but never forgotten, and the repercussions could be felt 130 years later. The six stories in A Room in Blake’s Folly tell the tale.J Arlene Culiner, I’m happy to host you on Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Tell us about your book.
A Room in Blake’s Folly by J Arlene Culiner
Genre Historical to Contemporary Western Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): sensualIn one hundred and fifty years, Blake’s Folly, a silver boomtown notorious for its brothels, scarlet ladies, silver barons, speakeasies, and divorce ranches, has become a semi-ghost town. Although the old Mizpah Saloon is still in business, its upper floor is sheathed in dust. But in a room at a long corridor’s end, an adventurer, a beautiful dance girl, and a rejected wife were once caught in a love triangle, and their secret has touched three generations.
Tell Us About Your Cover
What was your reaction when you first saw this cover?
I loved it!
How did you choose the artist?
Jennifer Greeff was the cover artist for one of my previous books, The Turkish Affair, and I think her design is wonderful. There’s the suggestion of hot sun and a bleached-out landscape—and those were perfect for a mystery set on an archaeological site in Turkey. For A Room in Blake’s Folly, a Western that begins in 1889, and ends in 2022, I wanted to see if she could evoke the past, desolation, and deep secrets.
What was it like to work with this artist?
A pleasure! So much so, that she has also done the covers for the two other books in this Blake’s Folly Romance trilogy that will be released this spring: All About Charming Alice and Desert Rose.
What do you like best about your cover?
The colors, the sense of loss, of a forgotten past mixed with the hint of green hope just outside the window. A Room in Blake’s Folly begins with a love story that goes wrong, but it still has the power to influence people one hundred and thirty years later.
A good cover conveys the genre at a glance. What are the genre clues on this cover?
There is an abandoned room, a window with torn curtains, and these both suggest a forgotten history and deep secrets. Such things belong to the past, to a historical novel, but we are seeing it now, after all the years have passed, thus it sets the story very much in the present.
What emotions do you hope your cover communicates?
Loss, secrets, and the desire to know more.
If your publisher chose your cover, how much say did you have in choosing your cover?
My publisher, The Wild Rose Press, presented me with another cover. It was a very nice cover, however, it really was too contemporary for this story (there was modern architecture in one corner and the suggestion of industry.) When I pointed out that most of the story takes place long before such things existed, my publisher immediately changed the cover, and I ended up with this one, which I love.
Does your publisher use a form to gather information regarding your preferences?
Yes, absolutely! How else could they get it so right?
Where to buy A Room in Blake’s Folly
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Where to buy A Room in Blake’s Folly
Publisher The Wild Rose Press
Universal Buy Link https://books2read.com/BlakesFollyRomance
J Arlene Culiner Social Media
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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Read The Lady of a Sultan the new #VictorianRomance by Linda Rae Sande @lindaraesa #RLFblog #HistoricalRomance
Captured by pirates. Sold to a sultan. This is not how Charlotte expected to spend her holiday in Linda Rae Sande’s latest historical romance, The Lady Of A Sultan.Linda Rae, 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 Lady of a Sultan.
The Lady of a Sultan by Linda Rae Sande
Genre Victorian Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): RA dowager duchess recently out of mourning, Charlotte is on her way to a holiday in Greece when pirates overtake her ship and enslave her. When they attempt to sell her to a Turkish sultan, she’s sure she can convince the ruler to let her go. She’s a matron and mother to two grown sons—and he has a harem and nineteen children. Whatever could he want with her?
Three nights, apparently.
For two decades, Sultan Ziyaeddin I has ruled his dwindling empire from several palaces in Constantinople, but the one on the edge of the Aegean Sea holds his most precious memories—and a precocious daughter who is overeducated for most men. Determined to introduce reforms, Ziyaeddin is far more enlightened than the sultans who came before him. Enlightened and alone. Convincing others of his vision for the empire has been a challenge.
Bored with his harem, he’s intrigued by the English woman who is unceremoniously dumped at his feet by pirates. With her skills as a duchess and desire for a daughter, will she be the companion his daughter needs—and the answer to his loneliness?
Why did you write this book?
This is the second novel in The Ladies of the Aristocracy series. These stories center on older women who are usually (but not always) widows who don’t expect to experience a second chance at love. The heroine in this one found her first love in my bestselling novel, The Grace Of A Duke, which released almost ten years ago.
Since most Victorian romances are set in England, I am always on the lookout for alternative settings. I’ve been studying the Ottoman Empire for the past couple of years and, although there is no historical precedent for an Englishwoman to end up with a sultan there, it seemed the perfect time and place for a fictional telling.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Regency romance. I’ve read hundreds of them over the years. I started out as a fan of science fiction, though, and I have a huge collection of SF novels, anthologies, and Isaac Asimov magazines.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
Captain America (the newer version). He’s a man out of his own time in a world where his values aren’t as highly regarded as they once were, so he’s very conflicted.
What are you working on at the moment?
I have three WIPs in the works. Two are for my Australian publisher—one for Summer Secrets of the Soho Club and the other for an anthology featuring stories about abductions. The third is the sequel to The Lady Of A Sultan, which focuses on two Cambridge-educated men, one a sultan’s son, who are experiencing a Season in London after being out of the country for several years.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
Two of WIPs I am working on are due to release by July 4 (The Betrothal of a Baron and The Love of a Şehzade).
Where to buy The Lady of a Sultan
Publisher Twisted Teacup Publishing
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A self-described nerd and student of history, Linda Rae spent many years as a published technical writer specializing in 3D graphics workstations, software and 3D animation (her movie credits include SHREK and SHREK 2). Getting lost in the rabbit holes of research has resulted in historical romances set in the Regency and early Victorian-eras as well as Ancient Greece.
A fan of action-adventure movies, she can frequently be found at the local cinema. Although she no longer has any tropical fish, she does follow the San Jose Sharks. She makes her home in Cody, Wyoming. For more information about her books, go to her website: www.lindaraesande.com
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Read the historical novel A Noble Deception by Veronica Bale @VeronicaBale1 #RLFblog #HistoricalFiction
Veronica 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.Noble Deception by Veronica Bale
Title A Noble DeceptionGenre Historical RomanceAuthor Veronica BaleBook heat level (based on movie ratings): PG13Forced to wed a landless knight in order to protect her home, Moira MacInnes intends an annulment of her marriage to the arrogant Lachlan Ramsay as soon as possible. Falling in love wasn’t part of the plan.Scotland 1455 – The Douglas clan is at war with their king. To protect his lands from confiscation, Lord John Douglas, the dying Earl of Kildrummond, must find an heir that doesn’t carry his name.A landless knight, Lachlan Ramsay expects no more of life than battles, blood, and the occasional warm bosom. But when Lord John makes him his heir, Lachlan has a chance at something he never dreamt of—a home. There’s just one condition: He must marry the earl’s bastard daughter, the fiery, eccentric Moira MacInnes.Lachlan has no desire for a headstrong, sharp-tongued wife. Moira has no need for an arrogant, too-handsome husband. To save Kildrummond they will marry and seek an annulment immediately upon the earl’s death. But deception is never simple, and passion once inflamed is impossible to ignore. Soon they will no longer be deceiving the earl but themselves.Where to buy Noble Deception
Publisher Boroughs Publishing GroupBarnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-noble-deception-veronica-bale/1122597120?ean=2940152119619Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/572434Author Social Media
Veronica Bale has written several novellas, short stories, and news articles as a freelance writer. With her Highland Loyalties trilogy she made her debut into the world of historical romance novels. Veronica lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband, young son and two spoiled cats. When she’s not writing she’s running, reading, spending time with her family, or hopelessly lost in the cobbles of Coronation Street.
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Read The Duke’s Lost Love part of A Duke in Winter by Ruth A Casie @RuthACasie #RLFblog #RomanceAnthologies #RegencyRomance
Will they fight the obvious, that their ideal person is in front of them, or will they walk away from their heart’s desire?
Ruth, 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 Duke’s Lost Love part of A Duke in Winter.
A Duke in Winter by Ruth A Casie
Genre Regency RomanceBook heat level (based on movie ratings):
Lady Nanette de Chappell, the Comtesse de Moyne and Lord Morgan Fitzhugh, the reluctant 5th Duke of Preswick grew up near each other in Sommer by the Sea. Nanette at her grandparent’s Dunamara Castle and Fitzhugh at Preswick Hall.
Fitzhugh is at Preswick Hall with his three closest friends. Each of them suffer from a form of feminine defeat. Fitzhugh has decided never to marry and pass the title to his younger brother. After a night of drinking and discussion, they all swear off the company of women for three years determined to study chivalrous love.
That snowy morning, Nanette and her three ladies arrive at Fitzhugh’s doorstep in broken carriage. After years apart, she is on her way to retrieve an item from the shuttered Castles for her ill grand mere. Avoiding a dinner party to meet yet another suitor she will find lacking, she seeks the solitude of Dunamara to determine if her ideal is realistic or a dream no man can fulfill.
Fitzhugh takes her to Dunamara. The weather changes and they are stranded at the castle by a snowstorm. Fighting through an avalanche and tunnel cave in, they must depend on each other to escape.
In the process of completing their quests, they both find something else. Will they fight the obvious, that their ideal person is in front of them, or will they walk away from their heart’s desire?
Where to buy The Duke’s Lost Love part of A Duke in Winter
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Duke-Winter-Historical-Romance-Collection-ebook/dp/B09X8JFNBS
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Ruth A Casie is a USA bestselling author. She writes historical adventures from the shores of medieval Scotland to the cobblestone streets of Regency London. Her stories embrace strong woman and the men who deserve them. Within the pages you’ll discover ‘edge-of-your-seat suspense, mind boggling drama, and heart melting emotions. Grab your favorite cup of tea, or an ale if you prefer, and join her heroes and heroines as they race across the pages to find their happily ever after. Ruth hopes her stories are your next favorite adventures!
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Pick up cool tips from J Arlene Culiner author of A Room in Blake’s Folly by @JArleneCuliner #RLFblog #Historical #Contemporary #Romance
Back in 1889, when Blake’s Folly boasted three silver mines, many saloons and brothels, the adventurer, Westley Cranston, fell in love with Sookie Lacey a former prostitute. Their powerful romance was doomed but never forgotten, and the repercussions could be felt 130 years later. The six stories in A Room in Blake’s Folly tell the tale.J Arlene Culiner, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Thanks for sharing two tips with us today, but first, please tell us about A Room in Blake’s Folly.
A Room in Blake’s Folly by J Arlene Culiner
Genre This book begins in 1889 and ends in 2022. Therefore, it’s a Western and a Historical to Contemporary Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): sensual
In one hundred and fifty years, Blake’s Folly, a silver boomtown notorious for its brothels, scarlet ladies, silver barons, speakeasies, and divorce ranches, has become a semi-ghost town. Although the old Mizpah Saloon is still in business, its upper floor is sheathed in dust. But in a room at a long corridor’s end, an adventurer, a beautiful dance girl, and a rejected wife were once caught in a love triangle, and their secret has touched three generations.
Two Tips for Organizing
1) Delegate. Why waste your own time on trivia? You can always find someone who is willing to do something boring in your place.
2) Always put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Given enough time, any obligation will disappear. Who will care about your unpaid bills, your ironing, or your housework in 2076?
Two Tips for Household Chores
1) Use your foot to push dust bunnies and those unsightly clumps of animal hair behind sofas, tables, counters or armoires. Who’s going to look and discover how lazy you are? And even if someone does catch you out, do you care? Really? Why?
2) Change your mind about dust. See it as a beautiful patina that adds atmosphere to any room and any piece of furniture.
Where to buy A Room in Blake’s Folly
Publisher The Wild Rose Press
Universal Buy Link https://books2read.com/BlakesFollyRomanceJ Arlene Culiner Social Media
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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