With millions of copies of her books in print worldwide, Santa Montefiore has established herself as a formidable voice in contemporary fiction. The titular woman from Paris is Phaedra, a young woman claiming to be the daughter of a recently deceased wealthy Englishman. Turning on her sweet disposition, she begins winning over the man's family, but not without stirring up controversy in her wake.

When Alba discovers a portrait of her deceased mother, she travels to the Amalfi coast of Italy to find out about her mother's past and not only discovers hidden secrets, but realizes the possibility of love and happiness in her own future.

Ireland, early 1939. Much has changed for the Deverill family and a new generation is waiting in the wings. But eyes are once again turning towards Europe where the storm clouds of war are building. In Dublin, Martha Wallace's feelings of rejection have turned,. in an instant, to happiness. Martha came home from America, desperate to track down her birth mother. But instead she has lost her heart to the impossibly charming JP, scion of the Deverill...

"Para todos los que la conocen, Angelica Lariviere vive en un mundo perfecto. Tiene un matrimonio ideal, dos hijos pequenos, y un encantador circulo de amistades. Pero Angelica es, tambien, una mujer que ha olvidado su propia belleza y su capacidad de seduccion. Y su marido, un banquero frances, se muestra cada vez mas distante y distraido. Hasta que un encuentro casual con, Jack, un seductor sudafricano hace tambalear todas sus convicciones. Por...