Cut to spring, 1940: Viann has said goodbye to husband Antoine, who's off to hold the Maginot line against invading Germans. This trajectory is interrupted when she receives an invitation to return to France to attend a ceremony honoring passeurs: people who aided the escape of others during the war. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. Sensual, evocative, mysterious and haunting. A cliffhanger ending will leave readers hungry for the next volume. Rose’s new series offers her specialty, a unique and captivating supernatural angle, set in an intriguing belle epoque Paris-a perfect match for the author’s lush descriptions, intricate plot and mesmerizing storytelling. When a series of violent events happens around Sandrine, she begins to believe in La Lune, but by then, it may be too late. Her grandmother suspects she has come under the influence of La Lune’s malignant spirit, who takes over women in their family when they fall in love, hoping to re-create the passionate relationship she had with her lover centuries ago.
She's accepted into the École des Beaux-Arts-unheard of for a woman-and enters into a passionate affair with Julien. Suddenly, Sandrine is obsessed with painting and with Julien. The woman is Sandrine’s ancestor, La Lune, a famed courtesan reputed to be a witch, after whom the house is named. Together, they unlock a secret room on the property, finding paintings left by an artistic couple who lived there centuries ago. She visits La Lune one day after her grandmother leaves, uncovering plans to create a museum from the space, and meets the compelling architect in charge of the project, Julien Duplessi. When Sandrine discovers the older woman is secretly visiting the mansion, though, her curiosity is piqued. But her grandmother isn't living at Maison de La Lune she's moved to a nearby apartment. Sandrine Salome flees New York and her treacherous husband to find shelter in Paris with her grandmother, but as she settles in and pursues new passions, it’s unclear whether she or an infamous ancestral witch is driving the changes.Īfter Sandrine discovers her husband is an embezzler, she sets sail for Europe, seeking refuge with her grandmother, a celebrated Paris courtesan, in the family’s mansion.
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