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Title: Explora Books Releases Cinematic Book Trailer for Vivian R. Probst’s Award-Winning Death by Roses

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 12th Jun 2026 - Death by Roses opens on a frosty mid-March morning in the McElroy farmhouse, where Mae Rose and her husband Art exist in a marriage long past its warmth. Art, a quietly devoted mechanic with a complicated history of infidelity and remorse, has spent thirty years trying and failing to bridge the emotional distance between them. On what will unknowingly be Mae Rose’s last day, he comes home with a wrecked 1974 VW Beetle, a box of orphaned barn kittens, and a bouquet of yellow roses.When Mae Rose dies in one final undignified burst of rage, her story shifts beyond ordinary realism. In the afterlife, she is granted the perspective she refused while living: a clear-eyed view of the truths her closed heart kept her from seeing. From there, Probst’s narrative takes an inventive turn. A dying horror film legend, confronting her own mortality, enters into a mysterious supernatural bargain — and the lives of two very different women become linked through one remarkable second chance. The result is a story that is at once darkly comic and deeply moving, shaped by vivid characters, unexpected turns, and an unflinching understanding of human weakness.Probst, who dedicated the novel to her late sister Cheryl Ann Cook and to mentor Fred Howard Loeb, brings emotional depth to themes of love, regret, and the enduring weight of a life marked by emotional distance. The novel is grounded in the rhythms of rural American life, richly observed domestic detail, and characters rendered with honesty and compassion. Mae Rose McElroy, stubborn and complicated as she is, emerges as a deeply sympathetic figure precisely because Probst refuses to simplify her.The book trailer, released by Explora Books on YouTube, distills the novel’s essential te...

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