ARC Applications for In a Desert Daze are Open!
Calling all romance book ARC readers who love yearny men, small-town settings, and childhood friends to lovers. In a Desert Daze is currently accepting applications for the ARC team! You can apply through this link, or by clicking the image below. You’ll also have the option to participate in the cover reveal and release day blitz, if you’re so inclined. I can’t wait for you to have your hands on this book!
Want to know more about being an ARC reader? Check out this blog post with some useful tips. Want to learn more about In a Desert Daze before applying for an ARC? Keep reading!
In a Desert Daze is a spicy childhood friends to lovers romance set in a small desert town, perfect for fans of the estranged friends to lovers in It's Different This Time by Joss Richard, the hopelessly devoted male main character in Savor It by Tarah Dewitt, and the heart and heat of Jessica Joyce books. Coming May 7 to KU, ebook & paperback! Preorder a copy here.
❣️ Estranged friends to lovers
🏜️ Small-town Mojave Desert setting
❣️ He falls first & harder
🏜️ Cinnamon roll MMC
❣️ Let’s do it once to get it out of our systems
🏜️ Years of pining
❣️ “Good girl”
🏜️ Childhood friends
❣️ Just for the summer
🏜️ Dual POV + dual timeline
❣️ Vibrator play
🏜️ Idiots in love
❣️ Grief representation
🏜️ Caretaker
Daisy Johnson is hell-bent on keeping her late mother’s hotel in the California desert alive, despite costly renovations and vacation rentals sucking business dry. She can handle everything on her own just fine, thank you, but she falters when her childhood best friend returns home. He’s the boy she encouraged to chase his dreams eight years ago, even though those dreams took him away from her.
After a scandal crushes Max Weber’s art curator career, he has no choice but to return to Harlow, California, and plan his comeback. Once eager to escape his hometown and disapproving parents, he always found refuge in Daisy—so he’s surprised to find her so guarded now. Even with oceans and years apart, he could never forget her. Surely, their back-and-forth voicemails were proof of that…
Max and Daisy team up to salvage her hotel and his career, and while the project only goes until the end of the summer—he’ll leave, and she’ll stay—they can’t get each other out of their systems. As they reignite a spark they’ve both long ignored, the two must face what broke them apart and what’s still holding them together.
