The French Effect

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>From the bestselling author of the LOVE IN PROVENCE series comes a hopeful and heartwarming journey that reminds us it's never too late for a second chance.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>France has a way of changing your mind ... and your heart ...</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Novelist Nora Bennett is living her fifties with more doubts than dreams. Once content with her quiet life she's recently found herself battling writer's block a growing restlessness-and resistance to a holiday season she's long stopped celebrating. So when her daughter Chloe an artist living in Paris asks her to dog-sit an intimidating Doberman named Atticus Nora surprises</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>them both by saying yes.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Delicious meals long walks through the storied streets of Montmartre and a chance to rediscover a spark of joy in the glittering holiday lights of Paris: Six weeks in the City of Light might be just the escape Nora needs.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Except Paris has other plans. Nora agrees to ghostwrite a memoir for 93-year-old Marie-Louise who reveals haunting memories of surviving the Occupation as a child of the Resistance. A charming younger tango partner with secrets of his own introduces Nora to the French art of pleasure. All the while the city's irresistible festive spirit envelops her gently.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Chloe invites Nora to spend Christmas at her husband Olivier's centuries-old ancestral farm in Provence. There Nora is embraced by the warmth of family and treasured traditions. She's also unexpectedly drawn to Pierre her son-in-law's moody and magnetic father. Their connection is undeniable even as he seems intent on keeping his distance.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But when Atticus suddenly goes missing Pierre joins Nora in searching for him. Soon a winding road trip returning to Paris softens their defenses ... and reveals complicated truths behind their guarded hearts.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Yet as Nora's time in France begins to wind down she must decide: Return to the comfort of the life she knew - or leap into a bold new chapter she never imagined beyond the pages of her novels.</span></p>