Join host Tom Riddell and co-host Teri Brown as they welcome author Suzette Bruggeman to The Writers Lounge. Sit back and relax as Suzette discusses what it's like to be a writer and she will also talk to us about his book:Desert Phoenix

Before the turn of the century Lou is a young girl living in gold country. She loses her family to yellow fever, and she soon finds herself forced into prostitution. The other girls take her under their wing, and they give her the name Tempa. The business is frightening to her, but she finds comforts and luxuries within the crib that she only dreamed of as a poor child growing up. She meets an older girl named Belle and they become best friends and their relationship would last a lifetime. Tempa grows into learning her profession, and becomes very good at it, but she is also able to keep a piece of herself and she strives to help others in healing their wounds with herbs.

She meets Henry, a young German immigrant, along a riverbank but he is badly injured and near death. She nurses him back to health and learns that he was attacked and the man who beat him is still on the hunt for him. Soon, Tempa and Henry become close, and he puts his trust into her. She reads books to him and talks to him, and she too finds that she is becoming attracted to this boy who is not yet a man.

A love story begins, highlighting the many hardships and realities of life back in the old west. What will become of Tempa and Henry? Will they find happiness or will their situations in life prove to be too difficult for them to be together?

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LET THE STORY BEGIN!

THE WRITERS LOUNGE PRESENTS: SUZETTE BRUGGEMAN

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