‘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
modelled 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.
Read the snippet:
Sandy Carson unlocked her office
door, flipped the notice secured in the middle of the glass panel to ‘Open,’
and clattered to her desk. Her stiletto heels echoed in the large half-empty
space. She employed an assistant who generally started work at nine, and that’s
why she’d made the eight o’clock appointment with poor Thorn Valmont. That’s
how she thought of him now. At first, she’d regarded him as ‘that totally dishy
young man who’d bought the old palace’ but after ten years of knowing his
secret, she pitied him. Though he was
still gorgeous, his plight was nothing short of grotesque.
She tossed her briefcase down and
pushed the button on her computer. Leaving it to boot, she went to make coffee
in the back room of the office. Sandy enjoyed the cool, white, spacious office.
She’d chosen the minimalist look for it. At fifty years old, Sandy had
discarded her unfaithful husband and changed every facet of her surroundings at
home and in her business.
She took her coffee back to her
desk and checked through the contract again. At last, Thorn was opening up the
vacation accommodation he’d made in the old palace. Three self-contained luxury
apartments were available within the huge house. Thorn lived in another on the
third floor. Sandy had sold him the place and now she was going to act as the
agent to let out the vacation apartments. She hoped to involve him in greeting
the tenants, but Thorn might do nothing more than allow access to the cleaners
at the end of each rental. She sighed, thinking about the sad figure he cut
when he did appear in town. Tall, muscled, dark hair, and lovely blue eyes, his
handsome exterior still couldn’t hide his pain. Well, not from me anyway ... maybe that’s because I know.
Copyright Elodie Parkes 2014
Evernight Publishing All Rights Reserved
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