A Private Affair

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Paris 1890. One city two worlds-where a private affair becomes public knowledge.</strong></h4><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sir Edward Hastings an English aristocrat weary of duty and drowning in ennui retreats to the glamour and shadows of Belle Époque Paris. There beneath the gaslamps and golden salons he encounters a woman who unsettles him more than he dares admit: Louisa Avigny a gifted seamstress with quiet strength haunting beauty and a past stitched with sorrow.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Louisa has known loss solitude and the hard edges of survival. Widowed and alone she makes her living by the precision of her needle and the dignity of her silence-until a chance meeting on Pont Neuf leads to an invitation neither of them expected.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Drawn together by mutual need and the ache of loneliness Edward and Louisa begin a private affair-one that defies the rigid lines of class country and custom. As the city stirs around them with art desire and revolution their connection deepens into something that may be love...or may be too dangerous to last.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From the elegant salons of the Hôtel Scribe to the cramped attic workrooms of Rue de la Paix </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Private Affair</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a story of forbidden attraction personal transformation and the choices that shape a lifetime. Richly atmospheric and emotionally resonant this historical novel explores what happens when a man who has everything meets a woman who refuses to be bought-and both are changed forever.</span></p><p></p>