Around the Fire New Release Spotlight. Today's book is Desert Rose by J. Arlene Culiner.

​Desert Rose ~ Blake's Folly Romance Book 1
by
J. Arlene Culiner

Released May 3, 2023
​A small town contemporary romance.

Secrets are excellent 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.

Grab your copy today.
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About the Author
Born in New York, raised in Toronto, Jill Culiner set out to have a life of adventure and discovery, not one of security and comfort. She has since crossed much of Europe on foot, travelled, by bus, train, car or truck throughout North and Central America, Europe, and the Sahara, has lived in a Hungarian mud house, a Bavarian castle, a Turkish cave-dwelling, on a Dutch canal, a lonely, and a very haunted stone house on the English moors. Such a lifestyle has meant staying flexible and taking up any sort of work that presents itself: belly dancer, fortune teller, b-girl, translator, fashion model, storyteller, radio broadcaster, actress, social critical artist, photographer, and writer. She now resides in a 400-year-old former inn in a French village of no interest and protects all creatures, especially spiders and snakes. She particularly loves incorporating into short stories, mysteries, narrative non-fiction, and romances, her experiences in out-of-the-way communities with their strange characters, and very odd conversations.
Web sites:

www.jill-culiner.com
Storytelling Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/j-arlene-culiner