Ruined by Murder Addicted to Love

Murder-mystery & romance novel, 313 pages, softcover. 

Millennial Carlos Almarón struggles past the devastating and unexpected loss of his recent lover, who dumped him and was murdered the night he was to propose marriage to her. Unable to come back to battery, his jet-set Manhattan friends abandon him, except for three women aiming to help his recovery for different reasons: One rebounds from the recent death of her husband after a long illness; another senses the possibility of a predestined, romantic liaison; and Carmela Ariana, his childhood tomboy friend, walks among the wounded-in-love after coming-of-age abuses have nearly shattered her hopes of finding everlasting love. 

Ariana alone knows why Almarón's lover rejected him, and what happened to her. She fears telling her longtime friend would push him away forever. 

Almarón's road to recovery brings him through a series of haphazard events, but only after he traverses a tightrope of daydreams and nightmares that take him as far back as the 11th century and to sexual escapades with himself and would-be lovers in his pubescent and early collegiate years. The process helps him discover what he cherishes most about men and women, especially his closest friend Ariana.

When Carlos and Carmela understand that true love requires a spiritual connection, Cupid takes them beyond their wildest dreams, and love's arrow strikes them when and where they least expect it!

If finding everlasting love means having to face intimate truths about ourselves no matter how hard or strange, then Almarón's and Ariana's story teaches us how to trust in the name of peace and love. We all seek the kind of romance these two hapless lovers crave, and everyone faces the same omnipresent challenge in the war of the sexes to rise above the fray and win love against all odds or fail in the attempt.

The winding road that takes Almarón and Ariana by surprise time after time also makes Ruined by Murder Addicted to Love a surprisingly wonderful, emotional roller-coaster, five-star read!

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“To categorize Ruined by Murder Addicted to Love as merely a romance or a love story would be an injustice; it’s really about all of us: how we want to reach out and connect with each other, and the things that get in our way.

 “This is not a book about romantic, sexual love (although there is plenty of that); rather, Kule points his readers in the direction of a more powerful kind of love: love that transcends, evolves and forces its way out from inside and into each ot...