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A Stranger in France
In A Stranger in France readers are taken on a fast paced, modern day romantic journey, that spans between the city of London, the glitz and glam of France, and the beautiful English coast in a gripping romantic story, between two complete strangers with enough suspense to keep you on the edge of your seat turning pages.
When career driven and successful thirty- two year old London born Kate Brown faces hard times in her marriage, she confides in her best friend Tanya Adams in Marseille southern France. Kate makes a bold move and spends two weeks in Marseille away from her husband in London. Her path crosses with tall, dark, devilishly handsome and wealthy Nicholas D’Coix. An immigrant to France from the Ivory Coast west Africa as a young boy, who turned himself around and built up an empire of wealth as a hustler and money maker, and now one of Paris’ top three entrepreneurs. In a whirlwind of sexy, lustful romance Nicholas and Kate fall in love. Kate returns to London to a few surprises of her own, and still very much in love with Nicholas as she makes yet another bold life changing move. Touching on real life issues these two strong characters battle it out against all the odds in the name of love, across the UK and France.
When career driven and successful thirty- two year old London born Kate Brown faces hard times in her marriage, she confides in her best friend Tanya Adams in Marseille southern France. Kate makes a bold move and spends two weeks in Marseille away from her husband in London. Her path crosses with tall, dark, devilishly handsome and wealthy Nicholas D’Coix. An immigrant to France from the Ivory Coast west Africa as a young boy, who turned himself around and built up an empire of wealth as a hustler and money maker, and now one of Paris’ top three entrepreneurs. In a whirlwind of sexy, lustful romance Nicholas and Kate fall in love. Kate returns to London to a few surprises of her own, and still very much in love with Nicholas as she makes yet another bold life changing move. Touching on real life issues these two strong characters battle it out against all the odds in the name of love, across the UK and France.
302 pages, Paperback
First published September 20, 2016
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About the author
Kim Knight
18 books52 followersKim was born in 1983 and from London in the UK. She’s a full time romantic suspense and thriller writer, mother to a beautiful little boy, an award winning author, and the #1 best-selling author of : My Mum and Me, Messages From Beyond The Grave (a memoir), 365 Days of Writing Prompts for Romance Writers, also The Art of Self-Editing for Writers. She’s also a best-selling author of an Unsolved Mysteries Series.
As a reader she’s head over heels in love with romance, historical fiction, crime fiction, African- American, suspense and thriller genre books. As a writer, Kim enjoys creating steamy stories with a diverse and multi-cultural line up, within the romance, romantic suspense and general thriller and crime genres. Her other passions include learning about astrology, numerology, esoteric subjects, all things ‘witchy and strange’ and spirituality. When she’s not reading, or writing stories of her own fashion, make-up artistry, spending time at her sewing machine dressmaking, watching make –up and beauty tutorials on YouTube, and being a mum are things she’s probably doing
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As a reader she’s head over heels in love with romance, historical fiction, crime fiction, African- American, suspense and thriller genre books. As a writer, Kim enjoys creating steamy stories with a diverse and multi-cultural line up, within the romance, romantic suspense and general thriller and crime genres. Her other passions include learning about astrology, numerology, esoteric subjects, all things ‘witchy and strange’ and spirituality. When she’s not reading, or writing stories of her own fashion, make-up artistry, spending time at her sewing machine dressmaking, watching make –up and beauty tutorials on YouTube, and being a mum are things she’s probably doing
www.kimknightauthor.com- author site
@kimknightauthor- Twitter
@kimknightauthoruk- Facebook
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March 28, 2020
Love comes in all forms. Sometimes you fall in love, then out of love. It happens. As it did in A Stranger in France by Kim Knight. Kate is a wonderful heroine. Unfortunately, she's emotionally abused by an alcoholic husband. When he pushes her beyond reason, she escapes to France to visit a good friend. She meets a stranger and falls in love. Everything becomes quite wonderful quite quickly. But then it gets a little complicated. She wants out of her marriage. She wants to love her new boyfriend. Can she make it work? If she can't, I'll take 'em!
I'm not a romance reader. This book might change my mind. Knight builds a beautiful character in Kate, and I believe her journey and approach to how she wants to fix her life. I'm sad when she encounters trouble. I'm happy when she wins. It happens a lot and then Kate worries it's not all real, but Knight made me a believer. Is there truly a prince charming (or princess!) out there for all of us? The thriller and mystery buff in me waited for the shoe to fall... I won't say if/when/how it does. But... you'll have to read to know.
Knight created a series of scenes and events that easily make you attached to her characters. For story and hope alone, I gave this 5 stars. But it's quite a solid book and will bring lots of joy and curiosity to many. I like the casual yet structured style between phone calls, letters, text messages and emails. It is modern but old-fashioned. I love a fairy tale ending. I wish I could tell you if we got one here, but that'd be spoiling the story, wouldn't it?
Kudos to Knight for telling a wonderful story. I must check out more of her work now!
I'm not a romance reader. This book might change my mind. Knight builds a beautiful character in Kate, and I believe her journey and approach to how she wants to fix her life. I'm sad when she encounters trouble. I'm happy when she wins. It happens a lot and then Kate worries it's not all real, but Knight made me a believer. Is there truly a prince charming (or princess!) out there for all of us? The thriller and mystery buff in me waited for the shoe to fall... I won't say if/when/how it does. But... you'll have to read to know.
Knight created a series of scenes and events that easily make you attached to her characters. For story and hope alone, I gave this 5 stars. But it's quite a solid book and will bring lots of joy and curiosity to many. I like the casual yet structured style between phone calls, letters, text messages and emails. It is modern but old-fashioned. I love a fairy tale ending. I wish I could tell you if we got one here, but that'd be spoiling the story, wouldn't it?
Kudos to Knight for telling a wonderful story. I must check out more of her work now!
February 17, 2017
To the outside world, Kate has it all! A nice London apartment. A fabulous job at Clapham High Academy. Years of hard work has paid off. She's over the entire English department. But that isn't enough. She's in a dead end marriage. A year ago, her husband lost his job. Now, he sits home all day drinking, smoking and thinking up ways to demean her. Her achievements remind him of his failures. The emotional abuse he imposes becomes unbearable. She wants their marriage to work. Only, he doesn't. Not even on Valentine's Day when he chooses football with his friends, over spending the day with her. It's the last straw. It gives her the courage to move on.
When the academy closes for Spring break, she hops a plane to Marseille Provence, France to visit a friend. One night, they go to a fancy nightclub. Right away, Kate's smitten with the rich, handsome club owner. The attraction is mutual. As things escalate, she's torn between wedding vows and what her body and soul craves.
This highly descriptive story has something for everyone! Romance, suspense, and an unexpected twist you won't see coming!
When the academy closes for Spring break, she hops a plane to Marseille Provence, France to visit a friend. One night, they go to a fancy nightclub. Right away, Kate's smitten with the rich, handsome club owner. The attraction is mutual. As things escalate, she's torn between wedding vows and what her body and soul craves.
This highly descriptive story has something for everyone! Romance, suspense, and an unexpected twist you won't see coming!
February 17, 2017
A pretty good modern romance story set in London, Brighton, Marseilles & Paris. Mainly pleasant characters, & I did read to the end, but the incorrect words, bad spelling, and poor punctuation ruined it for me. Especially as Kate, the heroine, is supposed to be an English teacher. Sorry, Kim Knight, ...Must try harder!
November 4, 2016
The story line held my attention and the characters were well developed. The problem I had with it was the lack of adequate punctuation, leaving run-on sentences and thoughts that kept jolting me out of the story. It was so prevalent, I wondered if the author did it intentionally for some reason. The story was good enough that I kept reading anyway, but if this was a device, I wouldn't advise using it again. It made the novel seem poorly edited and distracted from the flow. Miss Knight knows how to weave a story. But I'd have to think twice about reading another book by her without a preview that could reassure me the "device," if that's what it was, was not repeated.
October 6, 2016
A fantastic novel from a talented new English Author!
A smart, quick passed romance novel which includes a collection of colourful characters you can relate too or wish you knew or even find inspiration from.
When Kate finally sees the truth of her marriage and finds her strength and self again, life takes her on a whirlwind journey of passion, romance, friendship, heartbreak and challenge. Take this journey with Kate from London to France and down to the English Coast as her life is turned upside down.
A smart, quick passed romance novel which includes a collection of colourful characters you can relate too or wish you knew or even find inspiration from.
When Kate finally sees the truth of her marriage and finds her strength and self again, life takes her on a whirlwind journey of passion, romance, friendship, heartbreak and challenge. Take this journey with Kate from London to France and down to the English Coast as her life is turned upside down.
October 19, 2016
This was a great story. I couldn't put it down and now I want more of what the author is going to write!
April 24, 2017
4.5 rating.
Talk about a wild emotional ride! I cried, I laughed, I swooned, I seethed, I even pinched my face up tight wishing I could jump in the pages to give a certain character or two a little piece of my mind.
Kate is a successful, driven English teacher who has been promoted to head of the department. Unfortunately, her husband Danny doesn't share the excitement of her well earned success. He is nothing but a jealous, bitter, emotionally abusive alcoholic. After being let go from his own career he has allowed himself to downward spiral to a very ugly place... Eventually Kate has enough of the abuse, and of mentally and financially supporting a man who treats her like dirt.
Kate takes a trip to France to stay with a friend and make an attempt to clear her head and decide what to do about her clearly failed marriage. She winds up colliding into Nicholas, a man that is practically every women's dream. He's respectful, sexy, romantic, and very very successful! They are drawn to one another in an almost incomprehensible way. They spend blissful time together in Paris, only confirming what Kate already knows deep down. Her marriage to Danny will never make it.
A few things that I love about Kate is that she does what she has to for herself. She distances herself from what she needs to in order to get her thoughts together and take care of her responsibilities in life. She's mature, and has a very strong sense of work ethic. She doesn't just go running back to her husband and lie to him about her affair. Rather she stays away, and it only takes her a few months to file for a much needed divorce.
The only thing that I wasn't particularly fond of about the story, and about Kate, is the fact that she insisted on distancing herself from Nicholas and withholding very HUGE information from him! Half the time I just wanted to shout at her "Come on!!! Just tell him EVERYTHING!" I don't want to get into exactly what I wanted her to tell him because I hate spoilers, but lets just say it was more than just one thing. Aside from with holding the fact that she was married, she also refused to keep him in the loop with one thing after another once their blissful week was over. Her secrecy drove me insane...
On a different note, in regards to Kate's secrecy, it totally worked for the story and kind of held everything together, in order to deliver an epic ending!! Yes I said EPIC!
A stranger in France is an excellent read! I will definitely be exploring more of Kim Knight's books!
Talk about a wild emotional ride! I cried, I laughed, I swooned, I seethed, I even pinched my face up tight wishing I could jump in the pages to give a certain character or two a little piece of my mind.
Kate is a successful, driven English teacher who has been promoted to head of the department. Unfortunately, her husband Danny doesn't share the excitement of her well earned success. He is nothing but a jealous, bitter, emotionally abusive alcoholic. After being let go from his own career he has allowed himself to downward spiral to a very ugly place... Eventually Kate has enough of the abuse, and of mentally and financially supporting a man who treats her like dirt.
Kate takes a trip to France to stay with a friend and make an attempt to clear her head and decide what to do about her clearly failed marriage. She winds up colliding into Nicholas, a man that is practically every women's dream. He's respectful, sexy, romantic, and very very successful! They are drawn to one another in an almost incomprehensible way. They spend blissful time together in Paris, only confirming what Kate already knows deep down. Her marriage to Danny will never make it.
A few things that I love about Kate is that she does what she has to for herself. She distances herself from what she needs to in order to get her thoughts together and take care of her responsibilities in life. She's mature, and has a very strong sense of work ethic. She doesn't just go running back to her husband and lie to him about her affair. Rather she stays away, and it only takes her a few months to file for a much needed divorce.
The only thing that I wasn't particularly fond of about the story, and about Kate, is the fact that she insisted on distancing herself from Nicholas and withholding very HUGE information from him! Half the time I just wanted to shout at her "Come on!!! Just tell him EVERYTHING!" I don't want to get into exactly what I wanted her to tell him because I hate spoilers, but lets just say it was more than just one thing. Aside from with holding the fact that she was married, she also refused to keep him in the loop with one thing after another once their blissful week was over. Her secrecy drove me insane...
On a different note, in regards to Kate's secrecy, it totally worked for the story and kind of held everything together, in order to deliver an epic ending!! Yes I said EPIC!
A stranger in France is an excellent read! I will definitely be exploring more of Kim Knight's books!
January 11, 2018
A Stranger in France is billed as a romantic suspense story—I think, yes, some of that, a romance, too, but it also kind of straddles women’s fiction… it doesn’t fit super neatly in a box.
Kate is a very interesting character, and the author’s treatment of her struggle with the end of her emotionally abusive marriage is very sensitive (the novel begins with Kate trying to extricate from a dysfunctional marriage, and that plot line continues well near the end of the book even as Kate finds a new lover).
Ok, so you know—it’s a romantic novel, so spoiler alert, there is a happy ending ;)—but before you get there, a lot of tense things happen. I like that.
The story is told in an interesting way—mixing Kate’s point of view as narrator, Kate’s diary entries, letters/emails to a friend and emails back, as well as chapters told from her (ex) husband’s point of view. This mixes things up… although I’m not sure how I feel about the (ex) husband chapters. I see why they’re there… they knock me out of Kate’s p-o-v flow, though.
Overall, a unique and interesting read. Would definitely read more from this author.
Kate is a very interesting character, and the author’s treatment of her struggle with the end of her emotionally abusive marriage is very sensitive (the novel begins with Kate trying to extricate from a dysfunctional marriage, and that plot line continues well near the end of the book even as Kate finds a new lover).
Ok, so you know—it’s a romantic novel, so spoiler alert, there is a happy ending ;)—but before you get there, a lot of tense things happen. I like that.
The story is told in an interesting way—mixing Kate’s point of view as narrator, Kate’s diary entries, letters/emails to a friend and emails back, as well as chapters told from her (ex) husband’s point of view. This mixes things up… although I’m not sure how I feel about the (ex) husband chapters. I see why they’re there… they knock me out of Kate’s p-o-v flow, though.
Overall, a unique and interesting read. Would definitely read more from this author.
August 12, 2017
Kate needs a time-out from her unhappy marriage, so she visits her friend in Marseille; not only does she enjoy the atmosphere of Southern France, but she also meets the archetypal Tall, Dark and Handsome man - and he's rich, too! They start a whirlwind romance, but then Kate has to go home and face the music: it's not easy to get a divorce from her alcohol addict husband; and on top of it all, she finds out that she's pregnant. How is she supposed to tell all that to her lover 600 miles away who is waiting for her?
A lovely modern-day fairy tale, told in an interesting style with different narrators; torn between gloom and doom and a deep and pure love, the heroine makes us feel with her and wish for a happy ending with her Prince Charming. Kim Knight definitely is a new talent on the rise in romantic fiction!
A lovely modern-day fairy tale, told in an interesting style with different narrators; torn between gloom and doom and a deep and pure love, the heroine makes us feel with her and wish for a happy ending with her Prince Charming. Kim Knight definitely is a new talent on the rise in romantic fiction!
November 7, 2016
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Kate is easy to relate to and the book is easy to read, however, i dont agree with the storyline,
Kate is easy to relate to and the book is easy to read, however, i dont agree with the storyline,
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