Elanie's DesireUpdated at Feb 10, 2023, 09:23
Elanie, a 28 year old beautiful model and billionaire sole heiress just barely recovering from depression caused by the demise of her beloved parents in an accident, rents a mansion in a new city to change the environment, as recommended by her therapist. The new city, Cosmopolis, is less busy compared to El Dorado City where paparazzi wouldn't let her heal in peace, since as a successful model on her own rights she was already a celebrity even before the death of her billionaire parents gave the paparazzi additional reason to hound her. So Elanie puts all her engagements with her modelling agency on hold to get away for a while.
Few days into her stay in Cosmopolis, a very handsome and well built young man takes up residence in the adjoining mansion close to hers, taking Elanie's breath away at first sight. Elanie soon finds out he's a nude art painter and begins to fantasize, maybe fall in love with this hunk. After a short time, a few smiles and waves in between both of them, Elanie is almost sure that this handsomely sculpted artist likes her just as much but she is puzzled whether it is just a disposition to living a private life or something else that is making him not to make any move at all, not even as much as saying hi.
This love and romance themed story, with setting in a couple of imaginary cities and environments not uncommon to what would apply in a typical American contemporary society, spans over a period of about one year. During this period, the author spins the yarn so beautifully that any lover of romance books would be rapt in the gut moving, heart palpitating descriptions of love, romance, desire, even sex...as the episodic plot unfolds gradually.
The rising action of the unspoken romance between Elaine and her new neighbor, mostly in Elanie's fantasies after watching him paint beautiful nude women and imagining him working on her body like some piece of art, meets the first conflict when Elanie actually discovers WHY handsome, whose name turns out to be Hank, CANNOT speak to her! She was already head over heels in love with this guy.
As if that conflict was not enough, two rather unexpected plot twists present even more formidable conflicts, one of which does not only stay till almost the end of the story but also ushers in a touch of crime and detective scenario into the story; an old flame of Elanie's.
Why is Elanie's old flame so desperate to bully her into a love affair and marriage contrary to her heart desires? More importantly, why wouldn't he take no for an answer? What does this new threat mean to the budding love between Elanie and Hank?
A reader won't be able to put the book down until the resolution to this web of suspense comes to light.