Hello Elodie! Thank you for visiting Written Butterfly!
Hi Beth, Thank you for inviting me to share news about my
new release from Evernight Publishing, A Fairy Tale Romance.
The story is contemporary, fantasy romance. It’s set along the coast in the sumptuous Mediterranean, and bathed in warmth, which I felt was a fitting venue to contrast with the stark misery of my hero’s predicament.
The story is modeled on old fairy story motifs, where there is a fairy godmother style character, a prince and a princess. I so enjoyed writing this story because Thorn Valmont, my hero, is such a lovely, romantic man and deserves to be freed from the curse that befalls him. This is a sizzler of a story with erotic love scenes and threads of fairy tale mystery as we wonder what has happened to Thorn and how he’ll escape his lonely life.
Q) How did you dream up the dynamics of your characters?
As with most of my stories, the dynamics of the characters
just happened as I told the story. I always know my hero and heroine plus the
supporting characters really well and yet they sometimes take over. With Thorn
and Grace I had to have them want each other right away but also there needed
to be tension because Thorn is hiding a secret that does have an effect on when
he can see Grace.
Q) How much real life do you put into or influences your books?
I observe people all the time, and do come into contact with many people.
They are from all walks of life and often I’ll find things out about their
lives that might otherwise be hidden. They’ll tell me things as they look
around for items in the antiques place, or I’ll meet people who are selling the
emporium their antiques and their story will come out.
I see a lot of loneliness and that often goes into my stories. I’m
influenced by emotions I see around me. I think that despite the nuclear life
most of us lead, there is still a huge yearning for love and belonging.
Q) What are your upcoming projects?
I’ve just signed a contract with Evernight Publishing for a
contemporary love story with BDSM references, Rescuing Cade. It’s different
(smiles).
I’m working on a Sci-Fi romance, a paranormal romance for a
serial, and another fantasy romance. Not enough hours in the day for all my
ideas to come to fruition, and sometimes I discard ideas through lack of time
to write the story.
About the book, A
Fairy Tale Romance
When
delectable Thorn Valmont buys an old palace to renovate on the Mediterranean
coast, he never dreams it will cost him his freedom.
Thorn is
part of an aristocratic family. He’s a prince and must find his princess to
solve a puzzle he inherits from the ancient owners of the Mediterranean palace.
Will he find
her in time to stop his loneliness destroying him completely?
Read
an excerpt 18+
The memory of the young woman’s long slim legs and
firm thighs filled his head as he walked home. He imagined caressing her. He
would trail his fingertips up the back of her thighs to tease inside the cutoff
bottoms of her shorts. It was so long since he’d felt the skin of a woman and
yet he could almost conjure up that softness at the top of a thigh where it
joined the enticing base of her ass. Thorn sighed sadly and shook his head. He
had never come to terms with his lack of sex. Sometimes, after a week or so of
ignoring his needs he would masturbate before darkness fell. He always felt
better afterwards and told himself to do it more often, to give himself that
comfort, but often sadness stole away the notion and he’d drift through his
existence until he suddenly realized he needed the release of orgasm.
Thorn knew that he needed it now, before darkness
fell. He practically sprinted up the zigzag path to his home, resolved to ease
the pain of loneliness that the sight of the lovely young woman had deepened.
Inside his bedroom, he closed his eyes and found it easy to picture her mouth,
the plump bottom lip, the way her hair tendrils had stroked there, and then he
unzipped his jeans.
He paused and thrust away the memory of Grace. He
needed quick relief.
Thorn brought to mind one of the last real sexual
encounters he’d had with a woman. It was a hot memory and one he’d used before.
They’d met at a party, instantly attracted in a superficial sexual way, they
agreed to a moonlit tryst in the garden of the big house where the party was
being held.
He’d stalked to the girl waiting in a small stand
of trees, stripped her quickly, and lifted her to slide with her to the grass.
His arm around her bare waist, and a hand cupping her pussy, he’d
subconsciously stored away the feel of her wet arousal on his palm and could
bring that to mind.
He recalled the words she’d said to him then, as he
took his cock in his fist and pumped.
She had said, “Fuck me. Fuck me hard. I want
everything, your tongue, your fingers, and your cock in me. I want to suck you
until you moan and your cum fills my mouth.”
Thorn groaned as his cock hardened and he whispered
the words, “Fuck me.” He pictured licking the girl’s pussy, her legs wide apart
as she lay in the grass and his stomach clenched. His orgasm teased at him and
he leaned on the edge of the chest of drawers bent over with the urgent need to
come as he built a rhythm. He focused on the memory of her nipples between his
lips, the way she’d sucked his cock, the taste of her cream on his tongue.
Thorn pumped hard and his orgasm suddenly burned through him. As the waves of
pleasure coursed in his balls and forced the cum to spurt in warm streaks over
the back of his hand, he saw Grace as she’d looked at him on the beach. He saw
her green eyes and perfect lips. The picture in his mind added sweetness to the
orgasm. He shuddered and groaned.
Copyright
Elodie Parkes 2014 Evernight Publishing All Rights Reserved
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About
Elodie:
Elodie Parkes is a British author writing romance,
erotic, contemporary, and often with a twist of mystery, paranormal or
suspense. Her books are always steamy, cool stories and hot love scenes.
Elodie lives in Canterbury with her two dogs. She works in an antique shop by day
and writes at night, loving the cloak of silent darkness that descends on the
rural countryside around her home.
Elodie writes for, Hot Ink Press, Moon Rose Publishing, Eternal Press, Secret Cravings, Evernight,
Siren and Ra Jones Anthology
She has also released titles as an individual indie
author.
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Hi Beth,
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting me today. I enjoyed answering your questions :-)
Hi Beth,
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting me today I enjoyed answering your questions. :-)