01764nam a2200253u  4500001001100000003000700011005001700018007000300035008004100038020002400079020001500103035001300118035002100131040003200152100001800184245004700202260003700249300002100286500006000307520106200367650002901429650002301458651002901481707235737 OCoLC 20190501210820.0ta130205s2012    nyu           000 1 eng d  a9780345530363c7.99  a0345530365  631797544  a(OCoLC)707235737  aBTCTAbengcBTCTAdBDXdNOG1 aRice, Luanne.10aSecrets of Paris :ba novel cLuanne Rice.  aNew York :bBantam Books,c2012.  a315 p. ;c18 cm.  aReprint: Originally published: New York : Viking, 1991.  aPassion and friendship get equal billing in this entertaining love story, shaded with dark undertones, from the author of Crazy in Love. Lydie McBride, a photographer's stylist, and her architect husband Michael move to Paris while Michael, on a cultural exchange program, redesigns a room in the Louvre. Lydie is still reeling from the shock of her father's recent death in a murder-suicide with the young woman who was his lover. As Lydie is befriended by sophisticated Patrice d'Origny, a young Bostonian married to the owner of a fashionable jewelry store, Michael begins an affair with an eccentric French biographer who is engrossed in her 17th-century subject, Mme de Sevigne. Asked to design the new d'Origny catalogue, Lydie decides to stage a ball in a nearby chateau. While working on their separate projects, she and Michael try to determine whether their once wholehearted love can be recovered. Lively and appealing characters-- notably Lydie herself--the Paris setting and themes of betrayal and forgiveness distinguish this spirited romance. 0aMarried peoplevFiction. 0aAdulteryvFiction. 0aParis (France)vFiction.