And now a delicious mixture of sizzle and paranormal in Elodie Parkes’sย Cafe in the Park.
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Cafรฉ in the Park
byย Elodie Parkes
GENRE โ Contemporary Erotic Paranormal romance
PUBLICATION DATE โ September 9, 2014
PUBLISHER โ Siren Publishing
COVER ARTIST โ Elodie Parkes
Blurb:
When Emily joins a dating agency, she never expects to meet someone like Chris. Everything she ever hoped for in aย man, heโs special in more ways than one. Their intense attraction to each other is fueled by their shared loneliness. Willย 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 toย check the date matching mailbox on the website. There was one reply.
โMeet me for coffee Thursday lunchtime. Iโll wait at the front of Cafรฉ in the Park at one oโclock. Iโm tall, dark haired,ย and will be wearing black.โ
Emily took off the jacket of her business suit and read the message again. Cafรฉ in the Park was easy to get to fromย her workplace. She hadnโt too much time to worry over the meeting, since today was Wednesday. She only had to cutย down an adjacent street to meet the large square of the city park. There was a pond and a big bistro cafรฉ there. Lots ofย workers went to eat their lunch at the cafรฉ or sit on the benches that lined the path through the park…so a safe enoughย assignation.
As she ate her evening meal, she daydreamed about the meeting, hoping the man would be attractive, intelligent,ย kind, and sexy.
The next day, even though sheโd promised herself she wouldnโt fuss, she put on her shortest work skirt andย highest heels, and instead of the tan stockings she ordinarily wore, she chose black. As she drove to work, a flutter ofย anticipation grew in her stomach.
The morning dragged. She began to get cold feet, but then, ten minutes before one oโclock, she put her computer toย sleep, picked up her jacket from the back of her desk chair, and left her office. Emily told the receptionist she was goingย out for a sandwich. As she strode down the street and detoured to the park, nervousness took over. Her heart beat aย little faster. By the time she approached the cafรฉ, she was shaking.
There was no one outside it that matched the description in the message. Two young men in white shirts and tanย chinos passed her and went into the cafรฉ. Three women all in business dress talking and laughing together, waited for aย fourth to join them, and then went into the cafรฉ. Emily took a deep breath to steady her nerves and walked right up toย the cafรฉ entrance. She stood around for a few moments trying not to feel self-conscious, but it got the better of her. Sheย retreated to a bench seat on the path a little way off from the door to the cafรฉ.
At one fifteen, she slipped her cell phone into her jacket pocket after checking the time, and stood. She walked toย hang around outside the cafรฉ 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, sheย couldnโt help a sigh of disappointment escaping. That afternoon sadness crept over her. At the end of the working dayย as she traveled home, she realized just how much sheโd hoped to meet a man who might love her. A fresh wave ofย 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-datingย event the next evening, but then a little flame of hope sprang up. Iโll try for a little longer.
ยฉElodie Parkes 2014 Siren Publishing All Rights Reserved
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Author Info:
Elodie Parkes is a British author writing romance, erotic, contemporary, and often with a twist of mystery,ย paranormal or suspense. Her books are always steamy โ 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,ย 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 Sirenย Publishing.
She has also released titles as an individual indie author.
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