And we're off again! Christmas is taking up a lot of time (everyone wants everything done now, me to put on a nice dress, socialise and smile. I'm still exhausted from that marathon month writing, have no patience to do it to order) But more importantly is to get this book back out again. Maybe because it's a little too close to home, or maybe it's because of Nonna Mamione, or Rocco's smoothness, or I see family and friend's in Anna's fuck you and your ilk attitude, or even that I wrote it so damn fast, that this is genuinely one of my favourites. And there's nothing more satisfying in this world than helping a nutty, unbalanced, hilarious old bird. Once again, a Knight for your pleasure.
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R v Blurb [2014]
Rocco Mamione has possibly the best wingman in the world. His grandmother. He had no idea that when his nonna was fired from the job she had for thirty years, she’d demand the best employment lawyer in London. A lawyer who just happens to be his ex-girlfriend. His nonna has been giving him the “where are my great-grandbabies?” goo-goo eyes for some time and is convinced that Anna is the perfect woman to multiply those slightly unbalanced Mamione genes. Truthfully, he only ever imagined having babies with Anna. To get her back will be the ultimate challenge, but Rocco is nothing if not Sicilian-resilient.
Anna Taylor is not an Ice
Princess. Rocco Mamione just burned her heart to a crisp six years ago. Anyone
can talk about it, if they want a biro in their eye and an invoice for the
advice to shut up. Smart enough to want to avoid further heartbreak and a potential
conviction for murder, Anna does her best to not be led down the Mamione path
again. Definitely not by his crazy grandmother or her crack-addictive cakes.
Not by Rocco’s slick lines and hard body underneath those tailor-made suits.
And absolutely not by the fact that she loves him. Still. After all this time. The
truth about their break up may just do it.
The third book in the Italian Knights series is one cup good
sponge, two cups of endurance, redemption, and a lot of letting go. If only to get a bit of Sicilian...
R v Excerpt [2014]
“But I—” Imogen’s eyes widened and her mouth fell
open. What was she looking at? Anna turned around and saw Rocco heading for the
lifts. “What the hell?”
“Yeah,” Anna said shortly. “Look, I’ve got to go. I’m
late.”
“Are you mad? Have you lost your mind? Did you forget
what he did?”
“What the two of you did?” Anna corrected. “No.
I haven’t. But I have a job and it needs doing.”
Imogen stared at her in disbelief. “I never thought
you were that stupid, but it’s obvious you want to get under him again.”
“I’m going now because I’m not going to dignify that
with an answer.” She headed in the same direction as Rocco, in fact, feeding
into a perverse need to see how the two of them would behave toward each other.
“Hold the lift,” she called, just as Rocco took a step
inside. He held the door with one large hand, and his eyes lightened deviously
on Imogen, with baby in tow.
“Imogen Barnes,” he said. “Look at you, rearing the
innocent.”
Anna was shocked. Whatever she had expected, it wasn’t
that.
“I’ll wait for the next one. Anna, I’ll talk to you
when you get your senses back.” The lift doors closed just as the baby started
to wail again. Rocco leaned against the closed elevator doors.
“So you’re still friends. Really?”
Anna glanced at him edgily. “Sometimes, yes.”
“Forgive me if I find that absurd.”
“She’s made up for it. It was a mistake.”
He snorted a laugh. “It was a fabrication.”
“Excuse me?”
“I said, it was a fabrication. You tell me what on
this planet would induce me to fuck that?”
“I don’t know, maybe simple availability!” Anna raged.
“Oh, look, there’s a pussy, why don’t I stick my dick into it?”
Rocco suddenly crowded her space, and she found
herself pressed to the wall of the lift, clutching the support bars. “You knew
every single inch of my body. Ask her. Compare notes.”
“Why would she lie about that? Why would she
completely ruin our friendship over a lie?”
He shrugged. “Why does anyone do something that makes
them infamous in a person’s life? What else does she have going for her? Ask
her where my tattoos are. If she slept with me like she said she did, she’ll
know.”
“That’s crap, what if I’d told her?”
“Did you?”
Course not, the wonders of his body were all for her
and for everyone else’s imagination. “It won’t prove anything.”
He smiled sadly. “My learned friend, I beg to differ.
I’ll see you tomorrow.”
