Catherine E. Chapman is a UK-based writer of romantic
fiction. Her novel, 'The Beacon Singer',
a contemporary story set in the English Lake District, is available as an
e-book from Smashwords, their retailers, including Barnes & Noble, Apple
and Sony, and Amazon.
Catherine's writing has been described as literary character
fiction and her full-length books could perhaps be categorised as women's
fiction rather than romance. Romantic
storylines are, however, central to the plots.
Catherine also writes shorter fiction in the genre of
historical romance. 'Brizecombe Hall', a
novelette set in England in the late Regency / early Victorian period, is
available to download for free from Smashwords and its retailers. 'Danburgh Castle' and 'Rhiannon', both
Medieval romances, are available on Amazon.
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Excerpt from The Beacon Singer
After the meal, they went back to his hotel. They were both slightly drunk but Jane felt
pleasantly conscious. ‘Tonight I’m going
to make love to you and I’m going to remember it in the morning,’ she assured Edward. ‘I shall remember it fondly and without
regret.’
‘Oh Jane,’ he said, kissing her tenderly.
‘You never know, I might even remember your name!’
Some time later they were standing beside the bed, he
in his underpants and she in black bra and knickers, with stockings and
stilettos. He was marvelling at her and
she was enjoying being appreciated.
‘Can I take this off now?’ he said, fiddling with her
bra fastening. He was successful. ‘Oh Jane!’ he sighed ecstatically at the
vision of her.
‘Come
on, let me take your pants off.’ She did
so and discovered, to her utter
delight, that he was a man entirely
in proportion.
He then took her pants off. ‘I’ll keep my shoes and stockings on if you
like,’ she said.
‘Janey,
you seem to know instinctively what I like,’ Edward pronounced, enraptured.
Since he needed little arousal, she made him lie down,
climbed on top of him and got directly down to business.
‘I find, Miss Lake, that you are a consummate
professional in every sphere of human endeavour,’ Edward said as he gazed up at
Jane admiringly.
‘It’s
a very strong work ethic that I’ve inherited from my father,’ she declared.
‘I
would like to shake that man’s hand.’
She laughed at him and told him to shut up so that she
could concentrate on working her magic.
Minutes later he was telling her that he thought he’d
died and gone to heaven.
‘I’m
happy to report, old man, that far from it you have just proven yourself to be
very much alive.’ She beamed at him and
fell down onto his chest. Enfolded in
his arms, she had the most glorious
feeling that she was, at long last, loved.
In
the morning they were in bed wearing the white bath robes. They’d been drinking coffee and now Edward
sat reading the paper. Jane was lying
against him, with her head on his chest.
She stroked his robe and sometimes put her hand inside it to stroke his
skin. He occasionally bent his head down
to kiss her hair. They didn’t speak.
She loved that he could do other things whilst never
entirely forgetting she was there. It
left her scope to be herself yet constantly in his presence.
The way Jane was feeling was difficult to
explain. Eventually she looked up at
Edward and said, ‘Ed, you know what you said about feeling you’d died and gone
to heaven?’
‘Yes, my darling,’ he replied, looking from the page and
into her eyes.
‘It
is mutual.’
He smiled and said, ‘Thank you.’
Some time passed in silence, with him continuing to
read the Business section. Then Jane
freed herself from his arms and sat back on the bed. ‘Ed,’ she began authoritatively, ‘put the paper
down and make love to me.’ This was the
clincher. Would this self-made American,
built on the scale of the former Bankside Power Station, and so affluent he was
obliged to answer to nobody, do as he was told?
He did!
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