What if you learned that your mother was a famous-and infamous-international showgirl?
Linda Stone is a tomboy waitress taking orders from snobbish Harvard students in Julia Holden's second novel ONE DANCE IN PARIS. She'll be the first to admit that her life is less than fabulous and that's before she gets caught arrested for riding in someone else's car. Her home life isn't much better with her distant father who never reveals a single word about her dead mother. However, everything changes the day that a mystery package arrives in the mail from Las Vegas that includes a picture of her mother dressed in a showgirl outfit. With Linda's father still choosing to be tight lipped about her mother's history, the package grabs her curiosity so intently that she dashes off to Vegas to find out what ever the truth might hold. Luck must be on Linda's side. People crawl out of the woodwork to tell Linda about her mother and the guarded family secret. Once she's deep into the family mystery, Linda has to make a choice between her aimless existences in Boston or being a seductive Sabrina-like woman that falls in love with a man she meets in Paris. Will Linda learn how to love her self and the man that puts everything on the line for her? The odds look good. But, you never know when you're talking about showgirls, the Folie Bergere, and dance acts only fit for the Moulin Rouge!
In glamorous show-stopping form, Julia Holden deftly tells the story of a woman who is search of her mother's history and her own identity. As bits and pieces of her mother's life begin to reveal glittering performances, Linda Stone and the reader begin to understand the importance of showgirls, dance, femininity, and sensuality. ONE DANCE IN PARIS is a magnificent book on the spirit of femininity, the art of seduction, and the power of women. Get inspired to follow Linda Stone on a journey from Boston to Paris. This book is so sweetly written that you might even be signed up for dancing classes by the end of the book. ONE DANCE IN PARIS proves that anything is possible, anything.
Linda Stone barely remembers her mother. But she's about
to go from knowing precious little about her to
oh-so-blushingly much...
What if you just learned
that your mother was a famous-and infamous-international
showgirl? That she wore a tall headdress of rhinestones and
peacock feathers. Glittering high-heeled sandals. And a
dress... a dress unlike anything you've ever seen: barely
there, beautiful and shocking, simultaneously sexual and
like something out of a fairy tale. A sensual whisper of a
dress that gave her the power to become the talk of the
town, the queen of Paris, the star of the Folies Bergยre.
All her life, Linda Stone has felt awkward and out of
place-motherless and friendless, long-legged and
small-busted, standing head and shoulders taller than her
curvy classmates. Then one day a mysterious package arrives,
with clues about her mother's past, and about Linda's own
future. If her mother-Linda's mirror image-could spark
passionate fires in hosts of handsome men, what about Linda?
Does she dare to break away from her aimless existence and
slip on her mother's showgirl gown, to step into those
sparkling shoes, and to dance her own dance?
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