By
Elodie Parkes (Guest Blogger)
Thank
you for inviting me to your blog today to celebrate my new release
with Hot Ink Press, erotic paranormal romance, Deep Dream.
This
story concept was originally formed for a proposed series. Now it has
been completed revised, lengthened, and re-edited for Hot Ink Press.
Essentially
a vampire erotic romance, it also has threads of magic, and taking
place in New Orleans, it's set in a music club/rock club, the
mysterious StarZ.
Ethan
Ross, the vampire hero, has been in New Orleans since his girlfriend
and sire, dumped him in 1922. He's used to the weird undercurrents of
the city and now works in StarZ that caters to the supernatural
folks. His band, Deep Dream, play there. He's tasked with taking care
of the 'ordinary humans' that arrive in the club and he does this
happily ...
With
a broken heart to heal Ethan swore off love long ago ... that is
until starry eyed Anna Prideaux wanders into his life.
Then
sparks start to fly...
Excerpt
She
watched him disappear into the gloom. Anna stood and scooped her
phone from the counter. She glanced around to check who might be
watching her. When it looked like no one was, she quickly followed
Marcus. She quickened her pace as she lost sight of him in the
swirling mist at the back of the club’s main room. Marcus
disappeared.
When
she reached where she’d last seen him a shiver spiked up her back.
The mist was freezing cold, the air thick with potent. Anna turned
away as a weird fear gripped her. She practically ran back to the
bar, weaving through the groups of patrons, and muttering, “Sorry,”
as she knocked into one, splashed the drink from the glass of
another, until she stood in front of Ethan.
His
gaze mesmerized her. She wasn’t even sure she actually heard his
voice, but somehow he soothed her.
“Anna,
it’s time you went home now. You want to go home. You have work to
do transcribing the interview with the band. Everything’s fine.”
She
smiled at him. “I’m off now. Thank you for answering my
questions. Thank Marcus for me. He left.” She gestured toward where
she’d run from. A flutter of fear rose in her stomach and then
Ethan was leaning forward, his blue eyes capturing her so that she
dreamily froze to soak up his low voiced words.
“Goodnight,
Anna.”
She
left the club happily, a faraway feeling carrying her along ...
About
Elodie
I
love: music, art, flowers, trees, the ocean...
I
work with antiques by day and words by night.
Like
a vampire, darkness is my friend, that’s when the silence is only
broken by an occasional hoot of owls in the woodlands opposite my
current home, and I write.
Find
me:
1 comment:
Hi Lisabet,
Thank you for hosting me on your very cool blog :-)
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