Elodie Parkes
Elodie lives in Canterbury, United Kingdom.
It’s famous for the Cathedral, Chaucer, and there is a UNESCO world heritage
site, which includes the ancient ruins of St Augustine's Abbey and St Martin's
Church. There is also a ruined castle. It’s a pretty place too and the coast
nearby is great.
She works in an antiques shop and writes.
Elodie has two dogs that keep her fit with their need for walks.
Elodie writes romance, contemporary and always
erotic with a twist of mystery, paranormal, and suspense now and then. She likes
to make the story unusual in some way, by a quirk in the tale
Welcome Elodie tell us a little about why you
write erotic romance.
I started writing when I was seventeen. I
never did anything like submitting to publishers etc. until I was about twenty-five
and then queried to no avail.
I started writing again seriously a couple of
years ago because I had so many stories in my head.
I have published three erotic romance books
to date and I am working on another book right now.
They are available on Amazon kindle. I love
eBooks myself, and it’s rare now for me to buy a paperback or hardback.
I read heaps myself from across all types of
genres.
For my own writing people and emotions
inspires me. The complexity of life spurs me to write.
I find the world harsh. There’s not enough
love in it. Lots of people never find love. I write love stories with happy
endings to spread a little lightness around.
For instance my book ‘Millie Reinvented’ . was inspired through my day job.
I was talking to a young woman who was in the
antiques shop where I work and she was buying a little sculpture of two lovers
kissing. She said she had to have it because it was so nice to look at, as her
husband didn’t even kiss her anymore. I couldn’t say anything I just wrapped
the item, and stored the thought until the story burst out onto my laptop.
My books fall into the category of erotic
romance because I do write the sex scenes graphically and that’s because I want
the love the characters feel to show up properly in my stories.
I think too that readers have become used to
reading more. They don’t want the description of the romance to stop at the
bedroom door.
My latest release ‘The Horoscope Writer’ was inspired by signs along a country road
when I was out driving one day in another county.
The main characters just started to flow into
my head and by the time I had driven home, which was a three hour journey
through the countryside, I had the book and characters completely ready.
Dominic Reed the horoscope writer is
desperate for love. He doesn’t know he has never had the kind of love he
suddenly finds with Cassie the female lead character. It ignites a sexual
passion in him he didn’t know he could feel.
My books do contain graphic sex in the love
scenes but they are love scenes, romantic and the characters are driven by
love.
‘The Horoscope
Writer’
is about a man, Dominic, who is a writer and has lots of different writing jobs
for magazines amongst which is that of horoscope writing. He is a lonely soul,
living in the country on a funny country lane where a few artisan’s workshops
are. Fortunately he has a friend there too, Jeremy, who has a workshop, design
studio there on the lane.
Dominic is lonely. His last relationship
broke up a couple of years prior to the opening of the story and he really
wants love.
There is a workshop to let on the lane and
Cassie comes along to rent it.
Dominic is instantly attracted to her when he
sees her in Jeremy’s office and she finds Dominic irresistible.
There is a mild paranormal streak running
through what is an erotic romance because Dominic has been influenced by his
great uncle who was also a horoscope writer.
This is a love story, erotic and enticing.
EXCERPT 18+ From The Horoscope Writer
Cassie smiled. “This is some garden Dominic
are you sure you’re not a botanist?”
They had stopped and he put both arms around
her hugging her close.
His face was in her hair and he pressed their
hips together whispering.
“Not a botanist”.
Cassie lifted her hands to hold his face and
kiss him.
She kissed him tenderly and then hungrily
when the need to feel his skin against hers made her throb with need.
Dominic left her lips and kissed down her
throat to suck a little at the base. He was cupping her bottom now and kneading
her as he kissed her mouth again. His tongue finding hers and making her want
to sigh with pleasure. She let out a little moan of appreciation and Dominic
kissed the side of her mouth. She felt almost weak with the need to have
Dominic make love to her.
“Cassie I promised you coffee and it’s become
cold again out here”. He moved to hold her around the shoulders and walk back
to the house. Cassie felt as if she wouldn’t be able to stand up now he had
stopped holding her to his body, but she walked with him silently back through
the garden to his house.
They were in his kitchen before she felt as
if she could speak. The desire she felt for him had kept her silent.
He pulled out a chair for her to sit at the
polished wooden table and was making coffee.
“I’m going to make instant Cassie. It’s
actually a nice blend and we’ll get it quicker. Are you cold?”
She shook her head. “No Dominic I’m just
desperate to make love to you”. Cassie was almost surprised to hear herself say
this and she looked at him for affirmation.
Dominic was bringing the mugs of coffee to
the table and he sighed.
“Cassie you are my dream come true. I already
feel so much for you it’s scary”. Dominic meant what he said, and after putting
the coffee down on the table, he knelt before her, and placed his head in her
lap with his arms around her hips. The gesture touched Cassie deeply because it
seemed to lay bare Dominic’s fear.
“Are you scared that it isn’t real, what we
feel I mean?” She traced the side of his face with her fingertips.
Dominic looked up. “I know what I feel is
real”. Cassie leaned to kiss him.
They were clinging to each other and Cassie
whispered to him between kisses. “Dominic make love to me. Let me feel your
skin against mine”.
He was captivated and stood with her in his
arms to nuzzle down her neck. She had taken off her jacket and now Dominic
moved aside her shirt to bite her shoulder gently. He sucked and kissed, and
Cassie kissed him where she could reach, his ear, his neck, with her hands in
his hair.
Dominic stood back and pulled off his
sweater, and then almost tore the buttons of Cassie’s shirt open to reach her
breasts. He pushed her bra down to her waist exposing her breasts and cupping
them in his hands. Cassie’s breath was coming in gasps as Dominic sucked on her
nipples, and then turned her around to clasp her to him, and kiss down her neck
from behind. With his other hand, he unzipped her jeans and slid his hand down
her stomach.
Cassie was desperate to feel his fingers
inside her, and she arched towards his hand, pushing her jeans down for him to
reach her. Dominic moved his fingers down to reach her wet and throbbing for
him. He held her gently around her neck to reach her jaw and bring her head
back to kiss her lips. With his fingers inside her, his tongue in her mouth,
and his own hard desire pressing against her bottom Cassie moaned as she came.
She was weak from the sensation, and Dominic was groaning low and whispering
something to her. She turned her head more bringing her arms up around his head
to keep his kiss on her lips.
“I need you so much”, Dominic was whispering,
and he gently pressed her to bend across his kitchen table. Cassie knew what
was going to happen and she craved it. Dominic pushed down his own jeans to
free his erection before the hardness killed him.
He was tender as he pushed into Cassie from
behind, holding her around her breasts so that she was not pushed hard against
the polished wood. He slid into her and thrust deep wanting her to come again
as she sighed with the pleasure of his hands on her breasts, her hips, and the
way he filled her.
Dominic was in love with her, but she ignited
a sexual need in him that drove him to thrust hard, and he let go of her
breasts to bring his fingers to her bud at the same time as he thrust into her.
Cassie couldn’t breathe as she came and gasped his name. “Dominic”.
He knew she was coming again because she
instinctively pressed her delicious bottom up to his thrusts so that he drove
onto her bud and made it last longer. He held her hips as he felt his orgasm
start and then it overtook him with an intensity he had not expected. He was
pumping into her and moved his hands to hold her stomach to keep her in place,
and then he almost collapsed onto her as he leaned down to kiss her face where
she had turned it to receive a kiss.
Dominic couldn’t move and stayed there
holding Cassie tenderly for a few moments and then he slowly withdrew from her,
helped her up, and turned her to kiss her lips.
Cassie kissed him, her arms around his waist,
and whispered to him. “Dominic”. Just his name and it sent waves of sexual
feeling over him.
Copyright Elodie Parkes 2012
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Hello Elodie, your books sound wonderfully romantic as well as erotic.
ReplyDeleteXXOO Kat
Hi Elodie!
ReplyDeleteAlways nice to meet a new to me author:) Can't wait to read ‘Millie Reinvented’! It's a bit sad where the inspiration came from, but hopefully you were able to give the fictional couple a happy ending.