Postmarked

She's taught French for twenty-six years. She's never been to France.

At fifty-two, Paige Maxwell is newly divorced, on leave from her classroom, and tired of being called "predictable" by the husband who left her for his dental hygienist. So she walks into Next Chapter, a little travel agency in Laguna Beach, and books the trip she's been promising her students for decades: two weeks in Nice, on the French Riviera.

Her textbook French lasts exactly one morning. She accidentally orders a hot fish for breakfast and nearly buys an entire bucket of roses out from under Étienne Roux, a widowed perfumer from Grasse who hasn't laughed, or made a single perfume, in three years.

From the Cours Saleya flower market to the rose fields of Grasse at dawn, from cliff-top villages to a glittering night in Monte Carlo, Paige starts to discover the woman she might have been all along. But her flight home is booked, Étienne's heart still belongs to the wife he lost, and Paige isn't sure she can love someone again without disappearing.

Full of sunshine, sea air, and the scent of roses, Postmarked: Nice is a warm, funny, romantic story about second chances and learning that the brave choice and the safe one can live side by side. It features a closed-door heat level and a happily ever after.

Book One of the Postmarked series. Can be read on its own, with a new heroine and a new destination in every book.