![]() Unraveling the mystery behind Grace’s inheritance, Tessaro alternates between flashbacks to Eva’s dramatic experiences in occupied Paris and after the war, and Grace’s romantic adventures in Paris. ![]() Within the next pages, young Grace Munroe of London receives news of a bequest from a recently deceased stranger-one Madame d’Orsey of Paris. The book opens in 1955: Eva d’Orsey, mistress of a cosmetics magnate and former muse to a perfumier, is dying and has just made final arrangements for her estate. She tells the story of two women linked by a secret only one knows she stitches together two timelines, interweaves two plots, and tailors this work like a vintage designer dress. The author invites the reader into a fashionable world where scent and apparel wield transformative magic. ![]() Kathleen Tessaro’s fifth novel should be read in bed, propped on pillows, or beneath a beach umbrella, or in a bubble bath. ![]()
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