Thank you for inviting me to your blog with
my new Hot Ink Press release,
Love at First Sigh
The first thing people ask me concerning this
release is about the title. They say ‘is that a typo, shouldn’t it be Love at
First Sight?’ No, it’s not a typo (smiles). This book is a duo of red-hot
contemporary romance stories, Pina Colada and Handy Hubby Hire. The stories
feature a love at first sight thread, but initially it’s huge physical
attraction to each other when the couples meet. They sigh with lust and then
the romance develops.
Here’s the blurb for Handy Hubby Hire
Tired of the maintenance jobs mounting up
in her house, Sara hires a handyman. She never dreams someone like Griffen Fox
will show up to fix the faucets and back yard gate. Sparks fly, but will they
lose their heart to each other?
And for Pina Colada
When Emma takes a long weekend vacation in
a warm beach resort, she meets the very handsome Matt Tyler. They spend an
idyllic few days together. Will this only be a holiday romance?
I wanted my male characters in the two
stories to be very different personalities and yet still similarly alpha enough
to go for the girl they wanted sexually right away.
Matt
Tyler in Pina
Colada is fun and almost dares the heroine, Emma, to engage in lust driven
sex. He also gives her romantically exactly what she needs on her holiday break
in the sun. Picture the white sandy beaches, the pale green almost transparent
ocean, frangipani perfumed, warm night air and a drop-dead gorgeous man, who
wants you…bad.
Griffen
Fox in Handy
Hubby Hire is visually a bad boy, muscled with a swirling black tattoo and
an old truck. He’s capable and calm, but underneath the professional exterior
simmers…sex…lust…red-hot desire for the heroine, Sara, as soon as he sees her.
He tells her what he’s going to do. He
gives her what she’s longing for and then…something happens to him…something
unexpected.
As the writer I like Matt very much, but
Griffen, well, he’s an absolute darling.
I designed and produced the book cover using
Handy Hubby Hire as the inspiration.
It took some time tracing the stock photography of the truck and had other
people in it, which I edited out and then I found my couple. I love this
premise, with the sexy guy holding his lover up against him and nuzzling her
neck. I hope it gives a feel for the originality of the stories, their heroes
and heroines that could be you and the sexually charged atmosphere of hot
summer encounters.
Read
an excerpt of each story
Pina
Colada: General rating
Her third floor room provided a balcony that overlooked the
glittering pool below, and the warm, azure ocean beyond. Emma opened the
sliding glass door, and walked onto the balcony. It contained a tiny white
metal table, two folding chairs, placed close to the rail, and a lush,
broad-leaved plant growing in a massive terracotta pot next to the door.
She hung over the rail and took in the scene below. Bronzed
people lay stretched out on the gaudy loungers that the hotel arranged around
the pool. A few striped sun umbrellas flapped in the soft breeze. Even from her
vantage point on the third floor, the distinctive smell of coconut oil, and
other exotic suntan lotions wafted by. The atmosphere was sun-drenched,
exciting, and pungent with promise.
Emma turned to go back into her room and saw him. About a
meter away on the balcony of the adjacent room, a man stood silently staring
down at the pool. Emma took in his gorgeous profile, his dark hair falling
attractively over his forehead, his perfect nose, and his jaw with just the
right amount of stubble. She sighed over his muscular body shown off perfectly
in his low riding shorts. A Celtic design tattoo snaked on the top of his arm.
It looked incredibly sexy, a short sleeve of swirling ink on his muscle. She
paused to stare at him.
He looked her way. His dark blue eyes met hers. He held her
gaze and something passed between them, a silent appraisal of each other. They
both liked what they saw.
She knew she’d sparked his interest from the expression on
his face, but Emma, suddenly shy around such a sexy man, stepped into her room.
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Elodie Parkes 2014 Hot Ink Press All rights Reserved
Handy
Hubby Hire 18+
Griffen Fox drew a deep breath as he
watched Sara walk down the hall to her office. He grinned as he took in the
sight of her soft ass in her cutoff jeans. Made
for grabbing…she’s made for fucking. Pretty, beautiful eyes, lips that make you
want to bite them hard as you ram her onto your cock. Damn, Griff, that’s a
little over the top, get a grip, and start work. He opened the front door,
clicked up the catch so that it wouldn’t lock him out, and went to his truck.
An old F500, he’d covered the tray top and made space there for tools and
supplies. It proved a good workhorse. Griffen calculated the time it would take
to do the jobs in the house — not long really, pesky jobs, but not hard or time
consuming, as in a week, unless he strung them out. He’d be there most of the
day and one more morning. He looked back at the house from his vantage point on
the gravel drive. It’s a nice place. She
seems to live there alone. What’s a lovely woman like that doing with no man in
her life? Maybe there is one. Maybe I’ll ask her.
Griffen took his tools and supplies in the
house and started work. He hummed as he worked. He thought about Sara too, as
he rehung the backyard gate. He liked the way her nipples peaked in that tight,
white T-shirt, before she covered them up. She’d gazed hungrily at him too.
There was something needy about her that made him want to pick her up, crush
her to his body, kiss her tenderly and then fuck her hard. Fuck away that fleeting sadness in her eyes. Fuck a smile onto that
pretty face. Have those fingers of hers curl around my cock… have those full
lips suck it. Hell, I’m getting an erection. I’d like to kiss her. I like her.
I do. I bet she tastes sweet.
He jumped when her voice interrupted his
thoughts.
“I’m making coffee. Would you like a cup?”
She stood behind him and he turned. The
sunlight caught her hair and lit it up with golden streaks. Her T-shirt skimmed
the top of her low riding, cutoff jeans. Griffen stared at the flat expanse of
stomach on display as she reached up and plucked a few dead twigs off the young
tree nearby. He ran his tongue along his top lip as he saw the muscles in her
thighs tighten when she stood on tiptoe. She’s
lovely… Her nearness made him shake a little.
“I’d love a cup of coffee, thank you.” He
steadied his voice, and followed her to the kitchen.
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Elodie Parkes 2014 Hot Ink Press, All right Reserved
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 emporium 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, and Siren Publishing.
She has also released titles as an individual indie author.
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‘Love
at First Sigh’ is on launch special at .99 cents and .77 GBp on Amazon
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Hi Sabina,
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting me on your lovely blog with Love at First Sigh :-)