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Velvet Touch
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Luke and Allison Evans live a happy life in the wild and beautiful Carpathian Mountains.
But when their lives are torn apart by a dreadful event, Luke is left on his own to try and make sense of his existence.
With Hugo, his Chocolate Retriever as his sole companion, Luke chooses alcohol and old music to find oblivion and run away from pain. However, a storm changes everything again when it brings a mysterious woman with a baby at Luke's front door, forcing him to give life another chance.
Not far away, Eve Darkwood has her own methods of dealing with life. And death doesn't seem to stop in her tracks for too long.
And there's John, too, a man of many pleasures, broken and lost in his own way.
Their lives will intertwine and never be the same again.
*****
From debut author Lily Bloom comes a story of love, loss and all that the waves of life bring after that.
With a massive dose of darkness, mystery and eroticism, and described by readers as
"almost too hot to handle",
"don't read in public if you have a strong blush response",
"enthralling, great story that makes you read page after page holding your breath just to see what happens next and discover more about the characters",
"I loved every second of it!",
with "intimate scenes that are sensual and potent but with a shadow of sorrow hanging over some of them",
'Velvet Touch' will leave a mark in your heart that is bound to last.
This is a novel to be savored and remembered. For adults only.
Luke and Allison Evans live a happy life in the wild and beautiful Carpathian Mountains.
But when their lives are torn apart by a dreadful event, Luke is left on his own to try and make sense of his existence.
With Hugo, his Chocolate Retriever as his sole companion, Luke chooses alcohol and old music to find oblivion and run away from pain. However, a storm changes everything again when it brings a mysterious woman with a baby at Luke's front door, forcing him to give life another chance.
Not far away, Eve Darkwood has her own methods of dealing with life. And death doesn't seem to stop in her tracks for too long.
And there's John, too, a man of many pleasures, broken and lost in his own way.
Their lives will intertwine and never be the same again.
*****
From debut author Lily Bloom comes a story of love, loss and all that the waves of life bring after that.
With a massive dose of darkness, mystery and eroticism, and described by readers as
"almost too hot to handle",
"don't read in public if you have a strong blush response",
"enthralling, great story that makes you read page after page holding your breath just to see what happens next and discover more about the characters",
"I loved every second of it!",
with "intimate scenes that are sensual and potent but with a shadow of sorrow hanging over some of them",
'Velvet Touch' will leave a mark in your heart that is bound to last.
This is a novel to be savored and remembered. For adults only.
- GenresContemporary Romance
204 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2017
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611 people want to read
About the author
Crina-Ludmila Cristea
24 books13 followersCrina-Ludmila Cristea is an independent author.
She writes and publishes adult fiction, non-fiction, and kids books.
She is a promoter of a lifestyle as close to nature as possible and plans on having her own food forest — a creative retreat.
She occasionally interviews artists and shares their work with the world using her YouTube and other social media channels.
In 2012 she graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University with a degree in Film, Radio, and Television. In 2016 she published her first non-fiction book about the woodcarving work of her father, and in 2017 she released her first novel (which was banned in Germany, Austria, and Australia for a while). The novel was translated into French in 2018.
She is now working on Midnight Tears (the sequel to her debut novel), Tender is the Rain (a standalone psychological thriller), and other short stories.
Currently, she lives in Manchester, the United Kingdom. She is originally from Vrancea, Romania.
She writes and publishes adult fiction, non-fiction, and kids books.
She is a promoter of a lifestyle as close to nature as possible and plans on having her own food forest — a creative retreat.
She occasionally interviews artists and shares their work with the world using her YouTube and other social media channels.
In 2012 she graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University with a degree in Film, Radio, and Television. In 2016 she published her first non-fiction book about the woodcarving work of her father, and in 2017 she released her first novel (which was banned in Germany, Austria, and Australia for a while). The novel was translated into French in 2018.
She is now working on Midnight Tears (the sequel to her debut novel), Tender is the Rain (a standalone psychological thriller), and other short stories.
Currently, she lives in Manchester, the United Kingdom. She is originally from Vrancea, Romania.
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November 20, 2018
I want to thank Lily Bloom, author and Goodreads First Reads Giveaway for the eBook Kindle copy of Velvet Touch that I won on the Giveaway.
The plot revolves around Luke and Allison Evans, a married couple devoted to living close to the land in the mountains of Romania. After a car accident and the murder of Allison and the loss of her seven month unborn child, Luke suffers depression. Rose comes to his cottage in a storm with her baby and he gives her shelter that opens the plot to many twists and turns and new alliances to fight the evil that is stealing children.
The story ends in a cliffhanger when a lead takes Luke and John, an unexpected helper in solving the location of his missing daughter are following leads together. I do hope to read the next part of the twisted tale and find out what happens next.
The plot revolves around Luke and Allison Evans, a married couple devoted to living close to the land in the mountains of Romania. After a car accident and the murder of Allison and the loss of her seven month unborn child, Luke suffers depression. Rose comes to his cottage in a storm with her baby and he gives her shelter that opens the plot to many twists and turns and new alliances to fight the evil that is stealing children.
The story ends in a cliffhanger when a lead takes Luke and John, an unexpected helper in solving the location of his missing daughter are following leads together. I do hope to read the next part of the twisted tale and find out what happens next.
January 28, 2018
I liked this book!
First,this novel is well structured and its themes are really good defined and omogenizate.I liked a lot the precision of the writer and the amount of details brought with each chapter.
I reccomend it because it is truly a captivating book,characters and scenes are mysterious,difficult to discern clearly the end of the novel who will be continuing ,hopefully soon.
To reveal a little of this captivating novel,will give three words:love,blood,dreams.
First,this novel is well structured and its themes are really good defined and omogenizate.I liked a lot the precision of the writer and the amount of details brought with each chapter.
I reccomend it because it is truly a captivating book,characters and scenes are mysterious,difficult to discern clearly the end of the novel who will be continuing ,hopefully soon.
To reveal a little of this captivating novel,will give three words:love,blood,dreams.
December 6, 2018
I enjoyed this book for its plot full of twists and turns, and the short, succinct chapters that kept me engaged and turning the page.
There were also some poetic images and phrases that added to characterisation. Some examples are:
“She may be a pretty flower, but she’s full of thorns.”
“When Rose showed up at his door it was the rain lingering on her cheeks, not just the bruise that made him offer her shelter...”
Technically, there were some switches between tenses and minor gaps in continuity, but overall
this book will not disappoint readers of the romantic suspense genre.
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I enjoyed this book for its plot full of twists and turns, and the short, succinct chapters that kept me engaged and turning the page.
There were also some poetic images and phrases that added to characterisation and setting. Some examples are:
“She may be a pretty flower, but she’s full of thorns.”
“When Rose showed up at his door it was the rain lingering on her cheeks, not just the bruise that made him offer her shelter...”
This book will not disappoint readers of this genre.
There were also some poetic images and phrases that added to characterisation. Some examples are:
“She may be a pretty flower, but she’s full of thorns.”
“When Rose showed up at his door it was the rain lingering on her cheeks, not just the bruise that made him offer her shelter...”
Technically, there were some switches between tenses and minor gaps in continuity, but overall
this book will not disappoint readers of the romantic suspense genre.
—-
I enjoyed this book for its plot full of twists and turns, and the short, succinct chapters that kept me engaged and turning the page.
There were also some poetic images and phrases that added to characterisation and setting. Some examples are:
“She may be a pretty flower, but she’s full of thorns.”
“When Rose showed up at his door it was the rain lingering on her cheeks, not just the bruise that made him offer her shelter...”
This book will not disappoint readers of this genre.
March 2, 2018
Loved it great read would definitely recommend.
March 5, 2018
Very good
I really liked this book but I didn't know it was part of a series so if you plan on reading it you will know ahead of time. It is well worth reading either way.
I really liked this book but I didn't know it was part of a series so if you plan on reading it you will know ahead of time. It is well worth reading either way.
February 26, 2021
I just couldn't get into the story. I thought the more I read the story would seem more interesting. But because it's excessively wordy with too many unrealistic interactions between characters. If the author wouldn't try to use elaborate wording so continuously to narrate the characters,it would read more sexy mysterious than fairytale whimsical.
March 25, 2018
Just not my cup of tea. It went hither and yon with no rhyme or reason, leaving me to go back to try to clarify the change of scene. I had difficulty with all the gratuitous murders and insane people. It didn't help that it left me hanging at the end of the book.
April 5, 2018
I won this book from Goodread Giveaways. Thank you.
July 2, 2019
Since this was billed as a new author, I really really wanted to like this book. Instead I felt like I was suffering through it. This book needed a skilled editor. Just a proofreading would not have worked. Too many choppy sentences, too many direction changes literally in the middle of a paragraph (if someone is doing one thing, and two words later is having a phone conversation, having been alone in a room, I think a little bit of description and narrative is needed), and mis-used words did me in. Misheard is NOT the same as "miss heard and that was just one of the proofing/editing errors that needed to be corrected for this to be readable. The story itself was disjointed, confusing, and not at all what I would call erotic. I was about half way through when I realized I was forcing myself to finish the book. To the author, please find a good editor, someone who understands and READS erotic and steamy romance so that they can guide you into what this genre is about. This story could have been very very good because the basis was good.
February 25, 2018
ugh, this story started off okay, but then ... it jumped from twist to twist to twist without any transitional thoughts/words. Everytime the story took a turn I would go back a few pages thinking I accidentally skipped forward or I missed something, but I hadn't.
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