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St. Martin's Griffin
February 2016
On Sale: February 2, 2016
Featuring: Maud Heighton; Christian Morel; Sylvie Morel
368 pages
ISBN: 1250074444
EAN: 9781250074447
Kindle: B00JYZ0Y1M
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Mystery Historical
There is but one Paris.
Vincent Van Gogh Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to
paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English
town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris, she
quickly realizes, is no place for a light purse. While her
fellow students enjoy the dazzling decadence of the Belle
Epoque, Maud slips into poverty. Quietly starving, and
dreading another cold Paris winter, she stumbles upon an
opportunity when Christian Morel engages her as a live-in
companion to his beautiful young sister, Sylvie. Maud is overjoyed by her good fortune. With a clean room,
hot meals, and an umbrella to keep her dry, she is able to
hold her head high as she strolls the streets of Montmartre.
No longer hostage to poverty and hunger, Maud can at last
devote herself to her art. But all is not as it seems.
Christian and Sylvie, Maud soon discovers, are not quite the
darlings they pretend to be. Sylvie has a secret addiction
to opium and Christian has an ominous air of intrigue. As
this dark and powerful tale progresses, Maud is drawn
further into the Morels' world of elegant deception. Their
secrets become hers, and soon she is caught in a scheme of
betrayal and revenge that will plunge her into the darkness
that waits beneath this glittering city of light.
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