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Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author who “is the best there is at sweeping historical drama” (Kelly Harms, author of The Seven Day Switch), returns with a captivating new novel about several intertwined stories of love, loss, courage, and redemption set over the course of one magical week in Paris.
Nine Americans in Paris. Seven intertwined love stories. One City of Light.
Love Actually meets The Notebook in a tale of love, loss, and finding your way home, all set over the course of one life-changing week in Paris.
Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time—but they know it will also be their last trip here together. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together as the clock ticks down, the world opens up around them. Piper meets a cute French waiter, who might just understand her better than anyone she’s ever met, and Julia meets a man at a dive bar and struggles with how to tell him the truth about her future.
Rock star Jackson Quick’s glory days are behind him. He had a handful of hit songs thirty years ago, but he hasn’t toured in a decade. This week, he’ll launch his reunion tour in Paris, the city where it all began. But he wants more out of life than being defined by fame. When he meets a woman who finally sees him for who he is at his core, the ground shifts beneath his feet.
Henry McGee has been writing hit songs for decades—including Jackson Quick’s biggest hit, City of Light. But his secret is that every love song he’s ever written is for a woman named Celeste, whom he loved a lifetime ago, when they were both teenagers in Paris during World War II. He has spent eighty years believing she died—but when a letter arrives telling him the opposite, he’s on the first flight to France. Can he break through the haze of her dementia, using the songs he’s written all these years, to remind her of who they once were to each other—and to tell her he came back for her?
Henry’s granddaughter, Melody, has just discovered that her husband of twenty years, Gilles, a French cosmetics executive, is having an affair. When she confronts him, he tearfully apologizes and begs her to forgive him. But can she? And, perhaps even more importantly, does she want to? Or is there a different kind of life out there for her if she chooses to be alone?
These intertwining stories—plus several others—unfold over a few breathtaking spring days, as an unforgettable group of Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after in the City of Light.
Nine Americans in Paris. Seven intertwined love stories. One City of Light.
Love Actually meets The Notebook in a tale of love, loss, and finding your way home, all set over the course of one life-changing week in Paris.
Julia Glover has brought her twenty-three-year-old daughter, Piper, to Paris for the first time—but they know it will also be their last trip here together. Julia is dying, and as the mother and daughter desperately try to make memories together as the clock ticks down, the world opens up around them. Piper meets a cute French waiter, who might just understand her better than anyone she’s ever met, and Julia meets a man at a dive bar and struggles with how to tell him the truth about her future.
Rock star Jackson Quick’s glory days are behind him. He had a handful of hit songs thirty years ago, but he hasn’t toured in a decade. This week, he’ll launch his reunion tour in Paris, the city where it all began. But he wants more out of life than being defined by fame. When he meets a woman who finally sees him for who he is at his core, the ground shifts beneath his feet.
Henry McGee has been writing hit songs for decades—including Jackson Quick’s biggest hit, City of Light. But his secret is that every love song he’s ever written is for a woman named Celeste, whom he loved a lifetime ago, when they were both teenagers in Paris during World War II. He has spent eighty years believing she died—but when a letter arrives telling him the opposite, he’s on the first flight to France. Can he break through the haze of her dementia, using the songs he’s written all these years, to remind her of who they once were to each other—and to tell her he came back for her?
Henry’s granddaughter, Melody, has just discovered that her husband of twenty years, Gilles, a French cosmetics executive, is having an affair. When she confronts him, he tearfully apologizes and begs her to forgive him. But can she? And, perhaps even more importantly, does she want to? Or is there a different kind of life out there for her if she chooses to be alone?
These intertwining stories—plus several others—unfold over a few breathtaking spring days, as an unforgettable group of Americans in Paris must find their way to their own versions of happily ever after in the City of Light.
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Kristin Harmel
28 books16.2k followersKristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling, USA Today bestselling, and #1 international bestselling author of The Paris Daughter, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker’s Wife, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and are sold all over the world.
Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s. In addition to a long magazine writing career, primarily writing and reporting for PEOPLE magazine (as well as articles published in numerous other magazines, including American Baby, Men’s Health, Woman’s Day, and more), Kristin was also a frequent contributor to the national television morning show The Daily Buzz. She sold her first novel in 2004, and it debuted in February 2006.
Kristin was born just outside Boston, Massachusetts and spent her childhood there, as well as in Worthington, Ohio, and St. Petersburg, Florida. After graduating with a degree in journalism (with a minor in Spanish) from the University of Florida, she spent time living in Paris and Los Angeles and now lives in Orlando, with her husband and young son. She is also the co-founder and co-host of the popular weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction.
Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s. In addition to a long magazine writing career, primarily writing and reporting for PEOPLE magazine (as well as articles published in numerous other magazines, including American Baby, Men’s Health, Woman’s Day, and more), Kristin was also a frequent contributor to the national television morning show The Daily Buzz. She sold her first novel in 2004, and it debuted in February 2006.
Kristin was born just outside Boston, Massachusetts and spent her childhood there, as well as in Worthington, Ohio, and St. Petersburg, Florida. After graduating with a degree in journalism (with a minor in Spanish) from the University of Florida, she spent time living in Paris and Los Angeles and now lives in Orlando, with her husband and young son. She is also the co-founder and co-host of the popular weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction.
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November 14, 2025Want To Read~ That is Definitely an Understatement. I Want this Book This Very Second, so I can Mark it Currently Reading 🩵🩵🩵 Already Checked NetGalley and Not Listed Yet.
So, Very Excited About This One 🩵 Love Kristin Harmel and All Her Books. Guess, she forgot She Hired me as Her New Research Assistant and I will be Traveling with Her and Doing any Task Asked. Well, That I Made Up of Course, but I absolutely Must See her on Tour This Year. It did not work out last year and tried really hard.
If I can Somehow Meet the Fab 4 Together, think I will just Faint. Their FB Group, Friends and Fiction Started so Small during Covid and was so great listening to them and having an Author Every Wednesday Night. That still is going on. That is How I Started Going to Meet Authors. Before, had No Idea One Could and Kristy Woodson Harvey was my First Fun Travel to Asheville and her Book included Biltmore. I had so much Fun. Met a Lasting Friend Through This. Kristy probably remembers me since I made her Sign about 8 Veil Pictures. The Hendersonville Library gave me her Book Free. She was Incredibly Nice and Still am Thankful, as my Mom was Ill and only time in 4 Years I could travel.
Kristin, Looking Forward to This One, as I do All Your Books.
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau think is my favorite, only because reading the Author’s Notes, know how much of Kristin’s Soul is in this Book. She writes again and Picks Hope, Family, and Love to Pull one Through. 🎀 You Get Through by Going Through and You Did!
So, Very Excited About This One 🩵 Love Kristin Harmel and All Her Books. Guess, she forgot She Hired me as Her New Research Assistant and I will be Traveling with Her and Doing any Task Asked. Well, That I Made Up of Course, but I absolutely Must See her on Tour This Year. It did not work out last year and tried really hard.
If I can Somehow Meet the Fab 4 Together, think I will just Faint. Their FB Group, Friends and Fiction Started so Small during Covid and was so great listening to them and having an Author Every Wednesday Night. That still is going on. That is How I Started Going to Meet Authors. Before, had No Idea One Could and Kristy Woodson Harvey was my First Fun Travel to Asheville and her Book included Biltmore. I had so much Fun. Met a Lasting Friend Through This. Kristy probably remembers me since I made her Sign about 8 Veil Pictures. The Hendersonville Library gave me her Book Free. She was Incredibly Nice and Still am Thankful, as my Mom was Ill and only time in 4 Years I could travel.
Kristin, Looking Forward to This One, as I do All Your Books.
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau think is my favorite, only because reading the Author’s Notes, know how much of Kristin’s Soul is in this Book. She writes again and Picks Hope, Family, and Love to Pull one Through. 🎀 You Get Through by Going Through and You Did!
Review of advance copy received from Author
Brilliant! This might just be Kristin Harmel's best book yet, which is hard to do. So so good!
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