Blurb: 3* – I LIKED IT! – I have a soft spot for books set in France and enjoyed learning about the talent and artistry of perfumers in creating memorable scents in A Perfumer’s Secret by Adria Cimino. Synopsis from Goodreads: “The quest for a stolen perfume formula awakens passion, rivalry and family secrets in…
Do you believe in heaven? the afterlife? reincarnation? soulmates? Can love survive and overcome death? In the historical fiction novel In Another Life, author Julie Christine Johnson transports us between the present day and early 13th century France to find the answers. Eighteen months after historian Lia Carrer tragically loses her husband Gabriel, she decides to begin her life again….
Synopsis: “She revolutionized fashion and built an international empire . . . all on her own terms. Born into rural poverty, Gabrielle Chanel and her sisters are sent to a convent orphanage after their mother’s death. The nuns of the order nurture Gabrielle’s exceptional sewing skills, a talent that would propel the willful young woman…
Synopsis from Goodreads: “Twenty years, seven letters, and one long-lost love of a lifetime At age 40, Samantha Verant’s life is falling apart-she’s jobless, in debt, and feeling stuck… until she stumbles upon seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy Frenchman she’d met in Paris when she was 19. With a quick Google search,…
Synopsis from Goodreads: “Some encounters make a difference. Four strangers in Paris. Each one is on a quest: to uncover a family secret, to grasp a new chance at love, to repair mistakes of the past. Four stories entwine, four quests become one, as their paths cross amid the beauty, squalor, animation and desolation of…