First published 2022
Veronique Vincent has everything at twenty-two. She graces magazine covers and walks runways across the globe as one of fashion's most coveted models. Yet she prefers quiet evenings at home with her mother and boyfriend to the industry's glittering parties. After Paris Fashion Week, Veronique takes a brief vacation before her upcoming Vogue shoot in Tokyo. At Brussels' Zaventem Airport, a terrorist bomb explodes without warning. The blast kills her mother and boyfriend instantly. Veronique survives but suffers severe injuries that destroy her famous face and end her modeling career. She retreats from the world, believing she has lost everything that mattered. Then her mother's will arrives with a letter revealing family secrets Veronique never suspected. These discoveries introduce her to people and possibilities she never imagined. Through new relationships and opportunities to help others, Veronique slowly emerges from her grief. She begins to understand that beauty means something far different than she once believed.
Genres: fiction, drama, contemporary, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Brussels, Japan, Paris, Tokyo
Period: 21st-century
256 pages · Hardcover · Delacorte Press