Love
Through a Lens
By Lucy Felthouse
Synopsis
Celine
Patterson is a recent graduate eager to begin her career as a camerawoman—with
the fashion world and all its glitz and glamour calling to her. Things aren’t
that simple, however, and she’s forced to take a job making a documentary in
the Peak District countryside with a mid-list British actor.
In spite of
her initial disappointment—not only is the job not what she wanted, the pay is
appalling, too—Celine warms to the project. The actor she’s working with,
Edward Robson, is kind, considerate, funny and a consummate professional. She
realizes she can learn a great deal from him, and resolves to do so.
As the days
of the shoot pass by, Celine grows increasingly fond of Edward, and that
fondness quickly goes beyond the platonic. Convinced her crush is completely
one-sided—he’s over three decades her senior, for starters—she tries hard to
ignore it, hoping the feelings will go away.
But then
something happens to change Celine’s opinion, and flip her world upside-down.
How will she react? And can she emerge from this project with both her career
and her heart intact?
Note: Love
Through a Lens has been previously released as part of the Sweet Sensations
boxed set.
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Excerpt
Celine
gritted her teeth and hung tightly onto the straps of her backpack as she
forced one foot in front of the other up the steep incline. Her heart felt like
it was going to explode from her chest, and her lungs screamed with the effort
of providing her oxygen supply. Really, she needed to stop, to catch her
breath, regain some equilibrium. But Edward was already way ahead of her,
striding powerfully along as though their chosen path were perfectly flat. He
had a huge backpack of his own, too, which didn’t seem to be slowing him down a
jot.
But then,
this was the difference between the two of them—or one of the differences, anyway.
Edward Robson, mid-list British actor, was also a very keen outdoorsman, and
probably did these kinds of walks all the time—with or without a camera being
pointed at him.
Celine
Patterson, however, was a different story altogether. Newly graduated from
university, she’d struggled to find filming work in her preferred
field—fashion—and so she’d had to cast her net wider. Incredibly wide, as it
happened.
With
hindsight, it was easy to see why she’d gotten the job with Edward—nobody else
had wanted it. Not a damn soul. Traipsing around the Peak District wasn’t so
bad, but add in heavy camera equipment, camping gear, food, clothing, maps,
plans, GPS unit, satellite phone and makeup—for Edward, not for her—and a nice
walk suddenly became a grueling trek. The money was poor, too, especially
considering she was the only member of Edward’s crew. Could a single person
even be called a crew? Or was she just a dogsbody?
She’d had no
choice. It was this job or nothing. Crap money or no money. And, most
importantly, this credit on her CV or no credit at all. She knew she had to
start racking the credits and references up soon, if she wanted to get ahead in
the highly competitive field.
So here she
was, dragging herself up a heart attack inducing hill in the wake of an
actor-cum-presenter. At least the project was interesting; they were checking
out sites of myths, legends and ghost stories, that kind of thing. Edward was
nice, too—kind, polite and pretty funny. Even better, it wasn’t raining.
Overall, things could be a damn sight worse. She could be working with animals
or children—or even both. And she’d heard many times over that they were the
absolute worst.
She was
still convincing herself that things weren’t that bad after all, when she
glanced up and came to an abrupt halt as she realized there was a crotch
practically in her face. Snapping her head up so fast it made her neck hurt,
she made eye contact with Edward, who was standing a couple of paces farther up
the slope, hence the awkward face-to-crotch angle. Her already hot face blazed
with embarrassment. For once, she hoped the fact she was overheated would hide
her mortification. The slight breeze that blew was doing nothing to lower her
temperature.
Meet the Author
Lucy Felthouse is the award-winning author of
erotic romance novels Stately Pleasures (named
in the top 5 of Cliterati.co.uk’s 100 Modern Erotic Classics That You’ve Never
Heard Of, and an Amazon bestseller) and Eyes
Wide Open (an Amazon bestseller). Including
novels, short stories and novellas, she has over 140 publications to her name. She
owns Erotica For All, is book editor for Cliterati, and is one eighth of The Brit Babes. Find out more about her writing at http://lucyfelthouse.co.uk, or on Twitter and Facebook. You can also subscribe to her monthly newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/gMQb9
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