Part of Wild Seasons
First published 2014
Mia Holland wakes up in Las Vegas with a ring on her finger and a Frenchman named Ansel Guillaume in her bed. She just graduated college, and the responsible path waiting for her back home feels like a slow surrender. So she does something reckless: she gets on a plane to Paris. The deal is simple. One summer. No strings. Ansel is charming and a little filthy and nothing like the life she planned. They invent roles for themselves, play out small adventures across France, and keep things deliberately light. But light things have a way of getting heavy. Mia starts to feel something real underneath the game they are playing, and she suspects Ansel does too. Now she has to reckon with two versions of herself. There is the Mia who left a future that fit badly, and there is the Mia who showed up in a foreign country for a man she barely knows. One of those women has to win. The question is which choice she can actually live with.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: bittersweet, emotional, intimate, playful, romantic, sensual
Tropes: fake-dating, fish-out-of-water, forced-proximity, second-chance
Setting: Las Vegas, Paris, France
418 pages · Paperback · Gallery Books
Content warnings: sexual-content