TouchStone for Play #1

TouchStone for play is the first part of an epic love story involving school teacher Elizabeth Parker. The trilogy includes many of the familiar tropes associated with adult romance but so much more. As a reader you will be transported into an archetypal, fairy tale landscape where a princess is pursued by a wolf and wooed by Prince Charming. In reality, the fairy tale elements are slotted into a contemporary framework: a media driven world at the centre of which sits Ayden Stone. Beware … the fairy tale elements will have you spellbound, and the alluring powers of Miss Parker will endear her to you from the very first page as she speaks candidly and narrates, “The Story of Us …”
Elizabeth Parker, 27, is waiting to be found. Like the secrets of her past, her beauty is hidden, concealed behind modest clothes and a gentle nature. Her nights are spent listening to music and reading; fictional characters whisk her away to exotic destinations and lovers come and go. Sadly none remain once she turns over the final page. It’s then she finds herself estranged from the world outside her window. All she can do is secretly wish for more, wish for love, wish for a man like Ayden Stone ….
Into her secluded world enter two powerful men, one from her past and one very much in the present; both are loners, both intimidating, both desiring her sexually with a craving that threatens to erupt and overspill at a moment’s notice like champagne from a bottle. Initially, she cannot grasp the magnitude of their desire; it’s an alien concept for one so inexperienced and uninitiated in the art of seduction. She must allay her fear, hold tight and allow one of them to steer her towards deep and dangerous waters before embarking upon a voyage of sexual awakening.
Handsome 32 year old playboy, Ayden Stone is flawless; he’s a smooth operator, as skilled in the bedroom as he is in the boardroom. He has a taste for rare and beautiful things, and he longs to taste the beguiling Miss Parker. He’ll stop at nothing to add her to his collection of exquisite possessions. Ayden and Beth are drawn to each other like iron fillings to a magnet: helpless, stripped bare, literally and metaphorically. All the glitz and glamour of his five-star life-style is contrasted with less extravagant pastimes; intimacy gives rise to passion and passion to playfulness and the realisation of a fateful connection.
In the shadows lurks former boxer Dan Rizler. He’s biding his time but never loses sight of the object of his desire: precious Miss Parker. He has an obsessive love for her that is neurotic in nature and terrifying in the extreme. His tormented soul reaches out to her with merciless hands: he must have her.
TouchStone for play is a genuine 21st century love story with the sensitivity to move you to tears; to have you laugh out loud, to rouse your fears and to exhilarate. Some of the sex is very erotic and raunchy at times, particularly towards the end of the book when there are confessions and revelations that will shock you. Very little is as it seems and a dramatic climax will leave you breathless with anticipation.
This modern fairy tale is full of romantic moments, music and monstrous encounters. Elizabeth Parker is about to be found but will she be bound by her destiny or by her demon …