Two Americans literally collide at the entrance to a Paris hospital, each desperately searching for friends felled in the same unspeakable tragedy.
Patrick Finley Deschanel, an expatriate former U.S. Air Force pilot, quit the military after a career flying helicopter rescue missions in the Middle East. Now resident on a classic barge moored on the Seine, Finn is a man with both physical battle scars and psychic wounds that overshadow his day-to-day encounters at every turn.
Juliet Thayer is a fledgling landscape painter who seeks escape from a tyrannical older brother and her job at his violent video war games company in San Francisco. Her emergency trip to Paris also raises doubts as to her impending engagement to a colleague where she serves as packaging design director and "Chief Branding Officer" of GatherGames, a highly speculative enterprise in which her parents are heavily invested.
As Finn and Juliet form a tenuous attachment in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks that traumatized the French capital November 13, 2015, they wonder if the "City of Light" can provide a path out of the darkness for two emotional exiles who fearβalong with the world at largeβthat their universe has descended into a permanent state of chaos and that the renewal of spring might never come.
New York Times bestselling novelist and Emmy-award winning news producer Ciji Ware displays her formidable skill at weaving fact and fictionβdelivering a gripping story about the discovery of love and regained serenity in the wake of horrifying events.
A stand-alone sequel about descendants of Ciji Ware's A RACE TO SPLENDOR
"A mesmerizing blend of sizzling romance, love, and honorβ¦Ciji Ware has written an unforgettable tale." The Burton Report.
"Ware once again proves she can weave fact and fiction to create an entertaining and harmonious whole." Publishers Weekly