Red: red flowers symbolize romantic love. And red roses say desire, passion, and even eroticism.
Dark Red: deeper red symbolizes a deeper kind of love. They convey a message of strong true love and also beauty and perfection. These are the type of flowers you send to a spouse of twenty years
Black: this color typically signifies a loss or a goodbye. Buy why waste your time and money sending flowers for a breakup? Black doesn't necessarily need to be something bad. They can also signify elegance, power, and mystery. Maybe something special for a spouse who has a bit of a dark side.
White: this is usually associated with purity. Combine them with red and you're sending a message of a loving bond.
Yellow: this is the color of friendship. These are not the flowers to send to your significant other. Yellow flowers are a 'thinking of you' gift for a good friend or congratulations.
Green: green flowers are the color of fertility.
Pink: girls should not send pink flowers to their boyfriends, but it's great to send to a lady. Pink flowers signify femininity, sweetness, and charm.
Peach: since oranges and pinks are warm colors, peach flowers tell the recipient that you're comfortable with them. They signify appreciation.
Orange: this is a strong color that symbolizes fascination and even a hint of mischief. They are a perfect gift from a secret admirer.
Lavender: purple is the color of nobility and royalty. Sending flowers of this color says you put the recipient on a pedestal. It's also the symbol of trust.
Blue: blue flowers are all about peace. We all want passion in a relationship, but calm is important. They can tell someone you trust them. Not necessarily a color associated with romance, but still a romantic message.
And now I'd like to say a few words about my latest release, DÉJÀ VU by Samantha Gentry, a romantic suspense from the Crimson Rose line of mystery at The Wild Rose Press (www.thewildrosepress.com).
BLURB: When Alexandra Caldwell is hired by a reclusive author to research the thirty-year-old disappearance of a big name newspaper tycoon and his wife, she wasn't sure what she would discover. As she embarks on this project, she finds herself in the middle of a series of frightening events and an unexpected attraction to Gable Talbot, the current owner of Skull Island where the disappearances occurred...a man with a magnetic sex appeal and a past as mysterious as the case she's researching. Will she be able to do the job she was hired for, or has she stumbled too close to the truth?
I'm not sure exactly where the idea for this book came from, but it was an idea that had been floating around in the back of my mind for a while before I started putting a specific storyline together. The concept of using a privately owned island as the setting for a mystery appealed to me. Isolated location, the island's owner having a hidden past, and unexplained happenings that throw the characters together leaving them surrounded by life threatening danger. Since I'm particularly fond of the Pacific Northwest and have spent a lot of time there, I decided to locate my fictional private island in the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington state. And this, of course, required a research trip. :)
Next I needed to devise a situation that would provide a logical and valid reason for my heroine to be on the private island owned by my hero, two people who had no prior knowledge of each other. When I finally came up with a premise that I liked, I started working on the details of the storyline and then the writing of the manuscript.
I liked working out the mystery elements. Does the heroine have an ulterior motive for being on the island other than what she told the hero? A hero who doesn't have a past, does that make him a dangerous man hiding behind a false identity? Is the heroine in danger from him? And the mystery of the island itself, exactly what happened all those years ago and why is a thirty year old event suddenly creating a danger for today?
And after I formulated the questions, I had to come up with logical answers.
DÉJÀ VU was a fun book to write. I ended up really agonizing over some of them. I'm working on a romantic suspense mystery right now that's not going as smoothly as I'd like. Others seem to flow with very few problems. Too bad they can't all flow that easily. :)
There are several excerpts from DÉJÀ VU on my website as well as excerpts and reviews for my other books. Stop by and take a look. www.samanthagentry.com
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