BOOK INFORMATION
TITLE
– Café in the Park
AUTHOR
– Elodie Parkes
GENRE
– Contemporary Erotic Paranormal romance
PUBLICATION
DATE – September 9, 2014
PUBLISHER
– Siren Publishing
COVER ARTIST – Elodie Parkes
COVER ARTIST – Elodie Parkes
BOOK SUMMARY
When Emily joins a dating agency, she
never expects to meet someone like Chris. Everything she ever hoped for in a
man, he’s special in more ways than one. Their intense attraction to each other
is fueled by their shared loneliness. Will Emily find out his shocking secret
when someone from his past comes back to haunt him?
How can love blossom, when someone is
trying to tear them apart?
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EXCERPT
The
next day after work, she kicked off her high-heeled shoes at the front door and
padded along to her study to check the date matching mailbox on the website.
There was one reply.
“Meet
me for coffee Thursday lunchtime. I’ll wait at the front of Café in the Park at
one o’clock. I’m tall, dark haired, and will be wearing black.”
Emily
took off the jacket of her business suit and read the message again. Café in
the Park was easy to get to from her
workplace. She hadn’t too much time to worry over the meeting, since today was
Wednesday. She only had to cut down an adjacent street to meet the large square
of the city park. There was a pond and a big bistro café there. Lots of workers
went to eat their lunch at the café or sit on the benches that lined the path
through the park…so a safe enough assignation.
As
she ate her evening meal, she daydreamed about the meeting, hoping the man
would be attractive, intelligent, kind, and sexy.
The
next day, even though she’d promised herself she wouldn’t fuss, she put on her
shortest work skirt and highest heels, and instead of the tan stockings she
ordinarily wore, she chose black. As she drove to work, a flutter of
anticipation grew in her stomach.
The
morning dragged. She began to get cold feet, but then, ten minutes before one
o’clock, she put her computer to sleep, picked up her jacket from the back of
her desk chair, and left her office. Emily told the receptionist she was going
out for a sandwich. As she strode down the street and detoured to the park,
nervousness took over. Her heart beat a little faster. By the time she
approached the café, she was shaking.
There
was no one outside it that matched the description in the message. Two young
men in white shirts and tan chinos passed her and went into the café. Three
women all in business dress talking and laughing together, waited for a fourth
to join them, and then went into the café. Emily took a deep breath to steady
her nerves and walked right up to the café entrance. She stood around for a few
moments trying not to feel self-conscious, but it got the better of her. She
retreated to a bench seat on the path a little way off from the door to the
café.
At
one fifteen, she slipped her cell phone into her jacket pocket after checking
the time, and stood. She walked to hang around outside the café entrance for
another five minutes, but then feeling foolish, she went back to work.
She
detoured into the staff kitchen and got coffee to take back to her desk. As she
sat down in her desk chair, she couldn’t help a sigh of disappointment
escaping. That afternoon sadness crept over her. At the end of the working day
as she traveled home, she realized just how much she’d hoped to meet a man who
might love her. A fresh wave of foolishness flowed over her as she acknowledged
hurt at being lured to the meeting only for no one to show up.
She
almost cancelled her membership of the matching service and especially her
attendance at the speed-dating event the next evening, but then a little flame
of hope sprang up. I’ll try for a little
longer.
©Elodie Parkes 2014 Siren Publishing All
Rights Reserved
AUTHOR BIO
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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