HOPE & JUMP - The Novel
"She returned to find Ellery relaxed in the armchair with his eyes closed. He was the most beautiful man she'd had the pleasure of meeting. There was vulnerability beneath his boyish confidence that intrigued her, and the exhiliration she experienced in his company was incomparable.
Evelyn inspected his face; his usual smooth skin dogged by a sprinkling of late night facial hair, his eyes gently flickering, his thick tousled hair casting a shadow across his forehead. His mouth was still, just the hum of his shallow breathing and the spitting of flames licking dried wood disturbed this tranquility.
WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE TO KISS YOU JUST ONCE?"
In a sleepy Cornish town Evelyn Willoughby is distracted. In her artist's studio she stares wistfully across the Ocean towards the Bay as her handsome new tenant Ellery Faye paints in the room above hers.
She knows little about him, an ex-London banker who made his fortune in the City only to impulsively retire to the coast to fulfil a dream of creativity and colour. She doesn't know why and she doesn't ask. She likes this 'thing' they have and chooses to ignore his previous life for fear of tainting such beauty, but also because she feels he doesn't want her to know.
BUT ONE KISS CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING. ONE KISS CAN COMPLICATE THINGS. ONE KISS CAN MAKE YOU WANT TO ASK QUESTIONS.
A chance encounter reveals Evelyn as Ellery Faye's muse, his 'lovely Evie', and her intrigue in the man with secrets provokes a frenzied reciprocal desire with destructive consequences, and as their obsessive sexual fusion rages so continue the unanswered questions, the late night phone calls and the volatile mood changes in a man with whom she is perilously falling in love.
COMING 2010
Copyright Karen Roderick 2010.
