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Weak at the Knees

By: Jo Kessel

Blurb

“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.

Buy Links: US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E4VC70W

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E4VC70W

Goodreads Link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18195781-weak-at-the-knees

WHERE DO IDEAS COME FROM

First of all, to be a good writer I think one has to be a good listener. I’ve always been interested in peoples’ stories and sometimes marvel at how some of my friends’ lives are so impossibly dramatic. Seriously, sometimes just one person can have so much drama going on that an author wouldn’t dare to write their story, because nobody would believe it. I know someone who, at the same time as their partner was battling cancer, their son got into trouble with the police, they themselves broke their back, their father fell off a ladder and broke his leg – oh, and their car was stolen. And that is the honest truth. So, all these firsthand stories come in handy as well as reading newspapers, watching TV (news or drama) etc. And of course, I would be lying if I didn’t say that some of the things I write about I’ve personally experienced. Whilst I would never say that my fiction is in any way autobiographical, there is definitely an element of self which goes into a storyline or a character or the occasional thing that happens to a character. Close friends who know me intimately love reading my books to see what snippets of me (or even themselves) they can recognise! Plus I love to travel and all my books have at least a couple of scenes from foreign countries in them. Weak at the Knees, my latest release, is half set in France.

Author Info

Jo Kessel is a journalist, working for the BBC and reporting and presenting for ITV on holiday, consumer and current affairs programs. She writes for several national newspapers in the UK including the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Guardian and the Express and was the anonymous author of the Independent’s hit column: Diary of a Primary School Mum.

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. She loves traveling and since becoming a mother anything even remotely sad makes her cry. She’s a sucker for a good romance and tearjerker movies are the worst. She’s that woman in the cinema, struggling to muffle audible wails as everyone else turns round to stare.

Author Links

Goodreads:  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18195781-weak-at-the-knees

Website: http://www.jokessel.com/

Blog: http://www.jokessel.blogspot.co.uk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kesseljo

@jo_kessel

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