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SYNOPSIS:
BLISS NOVAK has a great life. She's happy, beautiful and financially secure. What more could she want?
BLISS NOVAK has a great life. She's happy, beautiful and financially secure. What more could she want?
Fortune has smiled on STEVEN FRENCH too. Handsome, talented and sexy, the stuntman has it all. At least that's what he believes until he meets Bliss.
When a movie production comes to Pacific Grove, these two are drawn together in a passionate romance. Their love creates their personal Garden of Eden.
But there's only one thing wrong with the Garden of Eden....there's always a snake.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25011611-the-trouble-with-eden
PURCHASE LINKS:
AMAZON * B&N *KOBO
INTERVIEW WITH LESLIE PIKE
INTERVIEW WITH LESLIE PIKE
1. Where did the idea come from for the book?
It came from my own experiences in the film business. I’m a screenwriter, and my husband was a Stuntman/Stunt Coordinator/Director. I’m very familiar with movie sets and the people who inhabit them. So, I thought it was the perfect setting for my first book. It’s an interesting world inhabited by interesting people. Every day someone misbehaves. What a great world to write about!
2. What genre does your book fall under?
Contempory Romance
3. Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
I hesitate on this question, because the fact that readers see the characters as they imagine them is one of the wonderful things about reading. No real person, no actor does the character justice. I rather have the reader shape the faces and bodies from their own ideas of beauty and sexiness. But for me, I’ll leave it to casting for now!
4. What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
Oh no! One sentence? When a movie production comes to Pacific Grove, Bliss Novak and Steven French are drawn together in a passionate romance. Can I write a run-on sentence? Haha Their love creates their own Garden of Eden. But there’s only one thing wrong with the Garden of Eden…..there’s always a snake.
5. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
I write a detailed outline first, so by the time I begin writing I know where I’m going. So for that outline it took me about two weeks. Then I began.
6. What did you learn about yourself while writing this book?
I learned a lot. I learned I could write 75,000 words give or take, that told a good story, made sense and made me want more. I learned that once again words make me happy. The crafting of sentences, the ideas to express, the beauty of finding the perfect way to say what you mean. I learned I like the silence of the act of writing, when you are not obligated to finish on a specific date. That was very freeing. And I learned there’s a community of readers out there in cyberspace that are hungry for stories. They are supportive and uplifting women and men who want the writer to succeed. So, I learned I like being in their world.
BLISS
I can barely keep my eyes open.
Like
Cleopatra on her chaise, I lie face to the sky enjoying a rooftop poolside
catnap. After my morning workouts I take
time to decompress. If only someone
would feel me a grape.
My lids
close, as the August sun lulls me into an intoxicating half sleep. The heat feels so good on my skin, soothing
my overworked muscles.
Ironic,
that the pleasures of life can trick us into affection, and then need. Sun, food, sex, everything we enjoy we can
enjoy too much. And when we do, the
pleasure becomes the course of our pain.
How well I understand this perversion.
I close my
eyes, pushing down the past. I prefer to
think of the now. Gorgeous day,
gratitude for the gifts of life that are mine, and the entire pool to myself.
SPLASH!
The sound
of a body diving into the pool interrupts my little Valhalla. I’m shocked by what feels like a blast of
glacial water.
Droplets
rain down on my hot skin and white bikini, and I shiver with the impact. My reflex is to jump up, but decide instead
to investigate the source.
I lift the
oversized brim of my red straw hat to peek at the intruder. Who trespasses in my personal Garden of Eden?
A golden
male body streaks under the water, powerful, aerodynamic. He rises to the surface and takes long easy
strokes. I’ve seen enough to know that
this particular body is pretty damned beautiful.
Adjusting
my position to get a better look, I watch him turn and head back towards my end
of the pool.
Lift your
head, lift your head. Let me see your
face. I will it so.
As it on
cue, he reaches for the edge of the pool and raises his head out of the water.
Wow.
I’m dazed
into silence. My pulse quickens.
Pillowed
lips, dark thick hair, penetrating green eyes, well defined jawline, it all
comes together in a perfect storm of hotness.
And for
just a few moments, the entire picture I see freeze frames. The world stops and makes sure I’m paying
attention.
He smiles
at me.
“Morning,”
Adonis speaks. His voice is seductive
and flirtatious.
“Morning,”
I flash him my best smile, and my interest is completely sincere.
Putting his
hands on the pools edge, he lifts himself out in one effortless motion.
“Jesus,” I
mutter, under my breath.
His right
shoulder is covered in tattoos that wrap around to this chest. I can see one of the underside of his left
forearm, a snake I think, and a piece of another peeking out of the bottom of
his trunks. Suddenly I’m a big fan of
tattoo art.
He stands dripping
in front of me. My eyes follow the
envious journey of droplets running from his hair, down his chest, over his
flat stomach, and into the band of his trunks.
My eyes linger for a nanosecond on the mother lode. Yep.
Ding, ding ding. Oh yeah.
AUTHOR BIO:
Leslie Pike lives in Laguna Niguel, California,
with her husband Don, and Pom-Poo Mr. Big. Before writing her novel, Leslie
worked as a screenwriter on episodic television. She has traveled the world
with her Stuntman/Stunt Coordinator/Director husband, on movie sets from Africa
to Israel, from New York to Los Angeles. Some of her favorite things include
calligraphy, long walks with her friends, and enjoying delicious food that
other people have cooked!The Trouble With Eden is Leslie's debut novel.
MEDIA LINKS:
Website: www.lesliepike.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuthorLPike
Instagram: https://instagram.com/authorlpike/
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