"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with
the heart is another." ~anonymous
Jean-Baptiste St. Michel has been searching all his life
for approval from a father he hardly knows. His mother's
bitterness has etched itself into his mind and for years,
he's nothing more than her son. Michel's destiny is forever
altered when his renowned father opens up the world of
dance to him. A prodigy in the making, the young boy's fire
captures the interest of many eyes, except those of his
invisible father. When his successes fail to bring him that
acknowledgment, he loses hope and in so doing, loses his
fire. Yet something deep inside will not let him quit.
So stodgily, Michel continues like a parody to dance. Hope
comes from the feisty Nadia Petrovna, a legend in her own
time. Her muse sees something within his rebellious frame
that no one else can see. Daringly, she offers him a
scholarship to apprentice with her company, the Islington
Ballet, headed up by the famous and tempestuous Charles
Crown. The group becomes more than a place for Michel to
dance, it becomes his family. After inheriting a flat, it's
his home the dancers migrate to, the place where they
unwind. Quirky and all highly emotional, they dance life's
ballet together offstage, when not actually performing on
stage.
Jonni Kendal, a vivacious English rose, wants nothing more
at 19 than to be a full-time working actress. Battling the
odds, as well as the aged leading man in the weekly series
she's landed, is an emotional job in and of itself. Jonni
is forever changed when a party brings her face-to-face
with the very enigmatic Michel. One night of exquisite
passion opens the door to his little family of dancers.
Soon, she's living and loving Michel, becoming a part of
his very unconventional life. However, Jonni is the odd
girl out, an actress and not a dancer. And there are those
whom Michel has grown up with who find her very much the
thorn in their little family garden. Jonni's love for
Michel becomes more important than acting. Yet in life's
greatest pas de deux, how can you truly love one whose
heart does not know how to embrace anything but the ballet?
Rebecca Horsfall has created an epic romance of
deeply moving proportions. She's written a book as
beautiful as a ballet, where words serve as the intricate
steps of the dance. Welcome to the world of the ballet,
where you feel each wince of pain and each note of
passionate music. Welcome to a world ignited by the fiery
passion of youth, where dreams are but the impossible made
into tangible reality for those who dare. Every character
manages to touch the emotional heartstrings. Deeply moving,
this story is like a back stage pass to one of life's
greatest dances. Full of passion, depth, trials and
tribulations, DANCING ON THORNS is destined to be a
timeless classic. This story is one simply not to be
missed, one you can return to time and time again.
When Jonni Kendal comes to London to pursue her dream of
becoming an actress, she's young, naive, full of courage and
determined to excel. Just nineteen, she's made up her mind
to escape the narrow, parochial life her parents have
planned for her.
Jean-Baptiste St. Michel is haunted by his father: the man
who abandoned him as a child, the man he can hardly
remember, the man he cannot forget. Driven by his
determination to forge a life for himself outside of the
shadow of his father's famous name, he's ambitious, talented
and dangerously attractive -- but suspicious of emotional
attachments.
When Michel rescues Jonni one night and takes her home,
there's an immediate attraction. Jonni finds herself
embraced by an exciting new world she never suspected
existed, and Michel, ever wary of commitment, finds himself
growing used to her presence in his life. But before he can
commit to any kind of future, he must release himself from
his past.
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