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Blurb for Weak at the Knees:
“We got so busy
living life that we forgot to live our dreams.”
Danni
Lewis has been playing it safe for twenty-six years, but her sheltered
existence is making her feel old ahead of time. When a sudden death plunges her
into a spiral of grief, she throws caution to the wind and runs away to France
in search of a new beginning.
The
moment ski instructor Olivier du Pape enters her shattered world she falls
hard, in more ways than one.
Their
mutual desire is as powerful and seductive as the mountains around them. His
dark gypsy looks and piercing blue eyes are irresistible.
Only
she must resist, because he has a
wife – and she’d made a pact to never
get involved with a married man.
But
how do you choose between keeping your word and being true to your soul?
Weak at the Knees is Jo’s debut
novel in the new adult, contemporary romance genre – a story about love, loss
and relationships, set between London and the heart of the French Alps.
Excerpt from Weak at the Knees:
Late
afternoon Olivier and I are playing with interlocked fingers, sitting side by
side on the balcony step, basking in the sun.
“I’ve
been thinking about your birthday. Is there anything in particular that you’d
like to do?” he asks.
I
shrug.
“I
don’t think so. Birthdays are no big deal and twenty-seven is hardly one of the
big ones.”
It’s
getting dangerously close to thirty and my life is still not exactly sorted. He
rubs it in.
“There’s
only three more years to go until you join my decade! Look, forget about it
being your birthday. Let’s just say we’ve got an evening to spend together to
do something a bit different. What would you like to do then?”
I’m
not brave enough to ask what’s going to happen to us, to ask whether he’s going
to have left his wife by then, or whether he’s expecting me to stay as his bit
on the side. But perhaps I won’t need to. Because if I can summon enough
courage to tell him exactly what I’d really like to do for my birthday, his
answer will probably tell me all I need to know. There is something I’ve been
desperate to do since we got together, but it’s not been possible seeing as our
affair has to be kept secret. It doesn’t seem much to ask and for most couples
it’s the simplest thing to do. I can’t bear to look at his face, to see his
expression or to read his reaction, so I fixate on our fingers instead, making
pretty puppet patterns.
“Actually,
there is something I’d like to do,” I say. “I’d like to go out and eat at a
restaurant, just you and me.”
He’s
silent for the longest moment. His fingers stop moving and so, it feels, does
my heart.
“Do
you know how difficult that is for me Danni?”
His
face is tight and serious when I look up and drown in his clear blue stare. I
can barely breathe. It feels like the question mark hanging over our
relationship and future has just jumped off the page, quadrupled in size and
wrapped itself tight around my windpipe.
When
Jo was ten years old she wrote a short story about losing a loved one. Her
mother and big sister were so moved by the tale that it made them cry. Having
reduced them to tears she vowed that the next time she wrote a story it would
make them smile instead. Happily she succeeded and with this success grew an
addiction for wanting to reach out and touch people with words. Jo lives in
London with her husband and three children where she works as a TV and print
journalist. She tells life stories and can often be found travelling the globe
researching the next big holiday hotspots for readers to enjoy. Since becoming
a mother anything even remotely sad makes her cry. She’s a sucker for a good
romance and tear-jerker movies are the worst. She’s that woman in the cinema,
struggling to muffle audible wails as everyone else turns round to stare.
P.S. Jo’s pretty certain one of her daughters has inherited this gene.
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Hi Lisa, thank you so much for having me on your lovely blog to tell readers about Weak at the Knees - it's really appreciated. Jo
ReplyDeleteI really liked the excerpt I so want to read more!
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