Lake Union Publishing
October 2016
On Sale: October 11, 2016
Featuring: Laurent Chartier; Sarah West
298 pages ISBN: 1503940500 EAN: 9781503940505 Kindle: B01FF8HYZK Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Heartbroken and alone, Boston art curator Sarah West is grieving the recent deaths of her parents and the end of her marriage. Ultra-sensible by nature, sheβs determined to stay the course to get her life back on track. But fate has something else in mind. While cleaning out her fatherβs closet, she finds a letter from the famous Parisian courtesan Marthe de Florian, dated 1895. The subject? Sarahβs great-great-aunt Louisaβs death. Legend has it Louisa committed suicideβ¦but this letter implies thereβs more to that story.
Determined to learn the truth, Sarah, against her nature, impulsively flies to Paris. There sheβs drawn into the world of her flatmate, the brilliant artist Laurent Chartier. As she delves deep into the glittering Belle Γpoque to unravel the mystery, Sarah finds that her auntβs story may offer her exactly what she needs to open up to love again.
Following Sarah in the present day and Louisa in the 1890s, this moving novel spans more than a century to tell the stories of two remarkable women.