The Art of Escalator Jumping

A chance encounter on the Mid-levels Escalator in Hong Kong tips a young woman into an unexpected romance.

Octavia Chan, a reserved Eurasian girl from Hong Kong, has a hard time standing up to her mother. Joan is driven, controlling and—for a 26-year-old back under her mother’s roof—incredibly frustrating. Octavia moves home from the US to reconnect with her mother when she meets Cal, an impulsive American with enthusiasm to burn.

The Escalator brings Cal and Octavia together like a mechanical sprite. But then Joan’s tight control begins to unravel. Instead of working on a better relationship with her mother, Octavia finds herself fighting for Joan’s sanity. Enlisting the aid of a tough psychologist-turned-lawyer, a Hong Kong socialite, and a helper with a secret, Octavia must use her own kind of strength to help her mother.

But a storm is brewing in Hong Kong, and Joan has a secret too.

>>>Read the only love story set almost entirely on and around an escalator