Lost and Found in Paris: A Novel

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Fast-paced and colorful, with hints ofThe GoldfinchandMalibu Rising,and more than one pitch-perfect love storyLost and Found in Parissparkles like the City of Light itselfand will have you flipping the pages quickly as youre drawn deeply into its mysterious world of art, intrigue, and redemption. Kristin Harmel,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Book of Lost Names

The ultimate escapist adventure in Paris, told with wit, style, and a touch of intrigue, by the popular and dynamic author ofThe Sweeney Sisters.

Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11, and Joanan art historian by traininghas spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on herand then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: hes fathered twins with another woman.

Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to blow up her life, Joan impulsively decides to get out of town, booking a last-minute trip to Paris as an art courier: the person museums hire to fly valuable works of art to potential clients, discreetly stowed in their carry-on luggage. Sipping her champagne in business-class, she chats up her seatmate, Nate, a good-looking tech nerd who invites her to dinner in Paris. He doesnt know shes carrying drawings worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But after a romantic dinner and an even more romantic night together, Joan wakes up next to her new lover to discover the drawings gone. Even more shocking is whats been left in their place: a sketch from her fathers journals, which she thought had been lost when he died on 9/11, and a poem that reads like a treasure hunt.

With Nate as a sidekick, Joan will follow the clues all over Parisfrom its grand cathedrals to the romantic bistros to the twisty side streets of Montmartrehoping to recover the lost art, and her own sense of adventure. What she finds is even better than shed expected.

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Lian Dolan is a writer and broadcaster. She is the creator and host of Satellite Sisters, the award-winning talk show she produces with her four real sisters. Satellite Sisters is the top-rated podcast for women online and their recent book, You're the Best: A Celebration of Friendship, is popular with book clubs and women's groups. She also created the popular podcast about modern motherhood, The Chaos Chronicles, developed by Nick at Nite for TV. Lian is the author of two best-selling novels, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife, and a regular columnist for Pasadena Magazine. In addition, Lian has written for a variety of media, including television, radio, websites and print. Lian graduated from Pomona College in Claremont. She lives in Pasadena, California with her husband and two sons.