ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Like most writers, Karol Hoeffner's working life has been a process of re-invention both as a creator and as an entrepreneur. She says, "Every time we writers open our laptops to give voice to the stirrings in our soul, we re-invent ourselves in the lives of our characters." Her latest work, Knee Deep, illustrates her point perfectly. She fell in love with New Orleans on her first visit when she was sixteen, the same age as its main character, Camille. Her long love affair with the Crescent City inspired her to craft her story, that of a young woman who learns to survive both love and loss.

ABOUT THE BOOK - KNEE DEEP

Named after a hurricane, Camille is the rebellious sixteen-year-old daughter of a New Orleans bar-owner who grows up in the shadow of Bourbon Street, raised on stories of hauntings, lusty encounters and voodoo magic.  And even though her family loses their home in a hurricane, she counts herself among the lucky until she discovers that her eighteen-year-old neighbor whom she secretly loves goes missing in the storm. In Camille's own words: "This is the story of what happened to me on Fat Tuesday, how I ended up on the steps of St. Mary’s, the hem of my pirate’s petticoat soaked in somebody’s else’s blood. Although I know the story to be true, I don’t totally believe it myself. Like all good tales born out of the bayou, mine involves the dead, the living and the one trapped in the brackish waters between heaven and hell. It is the story of true love and true disaster, and at the end of it, I’ll leave it up to you to decide which is the harder to survive." 

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