"Fast-paced and colorful, with hints of The Goldfinch and Malibu
Rising, and more than one pitch-perfect love story--Lost and Found in
Paris sparkles like the City of Light itself and will have you flipping
the pages quickly as you're drawn deeply into its mysterious world of
art, intrigue, and redemption." --Kristin Harmel, New York Times
bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names
The ultimate escapist adventure in Paris, told with wit, style, and a
touch of intrigue, by the popular and dynamic author of The Sweeney
Sisters.
Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a
globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father
died on 9/11, and Joan--an art historian by training--has spent more
than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning
to wear on her--and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a
bombshell: he's fathered twins with another woman.
Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to blow up her life, Joan
impulsively decides to get out of town, booking a last-minute trip to
Paris as an art courier: the person museums hire to fly valuable works
of art to potential clients, discreetly stowed in their carry-on
luggage. Sipping her champagne in business-class, she chats up her
seatmate, Nate, a good-looking tech nerd who invites her to dinner in
Paris. He doesn't know she's carrying drawings worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
But after a romantic dinner and an even more romantic night together,
Joan wakes up next to her new lover to discover the drawings gone. Even
more shocking is what's been left in their place: a sketch from her
father's journals, which she thought had been lost when he died on 9/11,
and a poem that reads like a treasure hunt.
With Nate as a sidekick, Joan will follow the clues all over Paris--from
its grand cathedrals to the romantic bistros to the twisty side streets
of Montmartre--hoping to recover the lost art, and her own sense of
adventure. What she finds is even better than she'd expected.
