Discover Your Next Great Read!
Chapter 14 By the time they all left for France in time to spend the Fourteenth of July there, the week before the wedding, everyone had had a good month. Marlene and the boys had been to Lake Tahoe and Santa Barbara, while Tommy commuted in a plane he chartered. The boys had been to … Read more
Chapter 13 When Felicity heard Taylor crash into the apartment at two .., she thought for a minute about pretending to be asleep. But she decided to deal with it calmly and remind him that he was staying at his parents’ apartment that night, not hers. He had come home like a homing pigeon to … Read more
Chapter 12 The gallery opening was a dazzling success. A huge number of people came, art lovers, critics, a good portion of their mailing list, many of Felicity’s friends, professors, and other artists she’d taken classes with. The Whitfields never showed up and she didn’t care, and Taylor had fun meeting people and chatting with … Read more
Chapter 11 While juggling half a dozen crises in the office, including fabric that hadn’t come in from Italy, two June brides changing their wedding gowns radically and the sewers playing beat the clock to finish them, delivery problems, a crucial pattern that went missing, and a foreign head of state who wanted Dominique to … Read more
Chapter 10 When Taylor came home that night, he was a different person from the madman and brute who had left the apartment six hours before. He came home at two in the morning, stone cold sober. Felicity had crawled under the covers with all her clothes on and had cried herself to sleep. There … Read more
Chapter 9 Dominique told Bill all about it when he spent the night with her when she got back. He was still swamped at the office but happy to see her, and he laughed when she described the scene to him, walking in on them with Clément in his impeccable pajamas, serving her mother breakfast … Read more
Chapter 8 Dominique wasn’t sure why, but when they came back from Courchevel this time, she had a harder time adjusting to Bill going back to his “real” life, and no longer waking up next to him every day. For the first week she couldn’t sleep, for the second she had nightmares, except for the … Read more
Chapter 7 The computer Marie-Aurélie used to send simple emails to her daughter, grandchildren, and a few friends was a mystery to her. She made mistakes and erased things, sent them to the wrong people, usually hit the send button too soon, and didn’t know how to do research. But she tried various maneuvers that … Read more
Chapter 6 The suite Dominique and Bill got at the hotel in Courchevel was even nicer than the ones they had had before. It had a big living room with a beamed ceiling, oversized comfortable furniture, a huge fireplace, a beautiful view of the mountains, a bedroom with a canopied bed, and two luxurious marble … Read more
Chapter 5 Dominique was always sad to leave her mother when she left Paris. At eighty-five, even though in good health, Marie-Aurélie was at an age where anything could happen suddenly, and change her situation dramatically. For now, she was fine on her own. Her housekeeper came in every day, but she left at the … Read more
Chapter 4 Violet had a great time when she went home to Boston with Jamie. His family was loud, close, disorderly, chaotic, and loved to argue, tell stories, and laugh. They welcomed Violet like an old friend. They lived in Cambridge, and Jamie’s father was a Harvard professor and an avid baseball fan. His mother … Read more
Chapter 3 Violet looked shocked when Felicity told her she and Taylor were engaged and stared at her long and hard. “Are you serious?” It was the same thing Felicity had asked Taylor when he’d proposed to her. Something about it didn’t seem real, and Felicity was so quiet about it that Violet thought she … Read more