A Palette by the Seine: Paris Romance

Some truths wait beneath the surface. Some loves do, too.Nora Bennett built a brilliant museum career by keeping her own wants in storage. Now, back in Paris for one last painting workshop before the biggest promotion of her life, she buys a flea-market landscape wearing a signature that doesn't belong to it-and carries it into the atelier of Luc Moreau.Luc restores what other people give up on. A widowed father holding a struggling family workshop together, he lives by one rule: evidence before interpretation-in art, and in everything else. But as lamplight and patience reveal a hidden figure beneath the overpaint-a woman history erased-Nora and Luc uncover something neither of them planned: a love built stroke by careful stroke, through permission, honesty, and work done side by side.Then Luc makes a choice meant to protect her.And Nora learns the most dangerous secrets aren't the ones hidden in paintings.With a once-in-a-lifetime directorship waiting in Manhattan and a life she never let herself want waiting in Paris, Nora must decide what she's willing to uncover-and what she refuses to give up.A slow-burn contemporary romance about two adults discovering that love, like art, requires patience, honesty, and the courage to stop deciding for someone else.Set among the ateliers, cafés, and bridges of Paris-warm, emotionally rich, and behind closed doors. For readers of Kristin Harmel, Beatriz Williams, and Jojo Moyes.