Welcome to another week of Weekend Writing Warriors, when a group of authors post snippets of their work for others to read and comment. When you’ve read this, why not go and see what other authors are writing. (www.wewriwa.com)
I’m continuing with a snippet from Out of the Darkness, an erotic romance book which has just come out. Last week, Marianne is recognised at a photographic exhibition and surrounded by people. She is rescued by a man who she takes to be a janitor. He suggests they go out the back way, and head for a nearby bar, where she discovers to her horror that she has dragged the photographer away from his own exhibition.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t realise…”
“No problem, I was getting sick of all the glad-handing anyway. You just gave me an excuse to leave. And you are, of course, the world-famous model, Marianne Delaney. I’m not a fashion photographer, but it would be hard not to notice your face looking down at me from every billboard around at the moment.”
“Sorry, yes, I have been doing the perfume ad. People must be so sick of seeing my face.”
“Well if I had to look at one face all day long, I guess it’s no great hardship if it happens to be yours,” Chad said, a smile on his lips.
“But you are clearly well known too, and I feel bad that I didn’t even know your name or recognize your face. You must think I lead a very shallow existence.”
She is one of the most beautiful and photographed women in the world.
She is living every young girl’s dream.
But sometimes the dream and the reality don’t match up.
The missing father; the predatory stepfather; the abusive lover; they all let her down.
Then she meets the man of her dreams – but fate is cruel and she is left alone again…
… until a powerful and charismatic Dom, who excites her like no other man before, steps into her life.
Is he the man she has been seeking her whole life? Will he show her the way out of the darkness and into the loving, submissive relationship she has always craved?
Publisher’s Note: This sweet and sensual love story is a revised and newly edited version of a book previously released under the same title but with the pen name Rachel De Vine.
This book is now out on Amazon at: (For one week only at 99c/99p)
Amazon US http://amzn.to/2fP9rnL
Amazon UK http://amzn.to/2w5qE2r
Amazon Canada http://amzn.to/2uTiHcW
Amazon Australia http://amzn.to/2uTtfsG
Fabulous snippet – and she’s a beautiful excuse to leave.
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Thanks, Daryl.
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Oooo what a flirt haha
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Yes, he has some charm! But then interesting characters often do. Moral is, don’t always go for the pretty boys.
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He does have a way about him, doesn’t he? I’ll bet he leads her on a merry chase. 🙂
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No, actually he becomes her first real love. But, sadly, the love doesn’t last. (Don’t want to give the plot away!)
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Great snippet. I like her awkwardness.
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Yes, for one of the world’s top models, she is not comfortable with her beauty and men’s reactions to it.
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Well that’s quite an amusing twist on the situation! Enjoyed the excerpt…
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Thank you, Veronica.
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I like the way they’re instantly so comfortable and drawn to each other, both professionals and in the public eye in very different occupations but with the same sense of isolation.
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Yes, Nancy. He is just the right man for her at that time, after meeting so many jerks.
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She seems at ease with him even though they really don’t know each other. I hope he’s the nice guy he seems like.
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He is, but without giving too much away, their relationship does not last.
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