October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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Also by Ella Carey:

The Venetian Daughter, August 2024
e-Book
From a Paris Balcony, December 2022
Paperback / e-Book
The Girl From Paris, January 2022
e-Book
The Lost Girl of Berlin, July 2021
Paperback / e-Book
A New York Secret, March 2021
Paperback / e-Book
The Things We Don't Say, January 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Things We Don't Say, July 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Secret Shores, September 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
From a Paris Balcony, October 2016
Paperback / e-Book
The House by the Lake, April 2016
Paperback / e-Book
The Paris Time Capsule, April 2014
Paperback / e-Book

THE GIRL FROM PARIS
By: Ella Carey

Daughters of New York #3
Bookouture
January 2022
On Sale: January 4, 2022
388 pages
Kindle: B09C2JRTYH
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Historical | Fiction

Vianne rushes through the crowded streets of Paris as the German bombs begin to fall. As she rounds the corner she sees the familiar spires of the old church burst into flames. Too late, she realizes that her mother and sister are trapped inside…

Paris, 1918. The end of war is in sight, and young seamstress Vianne Mercier is longing for the day when she can stop sewing military uniforms and start creating the beautiful dresses that she has been dreaming up in her head.

But just when it seems like peace is within reach, Vianne’s mother and sister are killed in a terrible air raid. To make matters worse, Vianne’s brother has returned home a changed man. Controlling and cruel, he presents Vianne with an ultimatum; give up her dreams of becoming a designer, or be forced onto the streets, penniless and alone.

With nothing left for her in Paris but sad memories, she decides to sail for New York. Determined not to look back, she throws herself into her new life—spending her days sewing dresses for wealthy Upper East Side women, and her evenings dancing the Charleston to Duke Ellington in the new downtown clubs. When Vianne meets handsome Italian Giorgio Conti, he encourages her career, and she feels safe for the first time since she lost her family.

Then news of a terrible accident compels Vianne to suddenly return to France, where she discovers proof of a wartime secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. Facing the threat of sickness and ruin, the people who forced Vianne out of her home now suddenly need her help.

Will Vianne find the courage to follow her heart, return to New York and her life with Giorgio? Or will duty bind her to the family she had left behind and force her to remain in France?