Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
Publication Date: April 5, 2022
Publisher: William Morrow
Genre: Fiction, Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Synopsis:
The ultimate escapist adventure in Paris, told with wit, style, and a touch of intrigue, by the popular and dynamic author of The 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 Joan—an art historian by training—has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her—and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he’s 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 doesn’t know she’s 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 what’s been left in their place: a sketch from her father’s 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 Paris—from its grand cathedrals to the romantic bistros to the twisty side streets of Monmarte—hoping to recover the lost art, and her own sense of adventure. What she finds is even better than she’d expected.
Why I Can’t Wait!
I usually love books set in Paris.
What book or books are you anxiously waiting for? Comment below!
This sounds intriguing! I hope you enjoy reading it, Wendy.
My WoW
Thank you, Sandra!
I am excited about this one too! I hope you enjoy it when you read it!
Thank you, hope you do too!
A treasure hunt across Paris! That does sound fun🙂
I hope it’s as good as it sounds!
This one does sound like a fun book. I usually don’t like to read books about 9/11, but I might make an exception with this one.
Thank you, Jenni! I hope it’s a good one.
This sounds like a good one, plus the perk of being set in PARIS! 🙂
Yes! I sure hope it’s as good as it looks.
Beautiful cover! Sounds like it could be good as well. Great pick!
Thank you, Lisa. I’m hoping it’s a good one!
Hope you enjoy when you get to read 💕
Thank you, Jenny!
I love books set in Paris, too! Such a wonderful city!
Thank you Rachel!
Happy reading Wendy!🤓📚💖
Thank you, Kaceey!
I have read this author’s previous book. I am very curious about this one!
Thank you, Joanna, I hope it’s good!
Oh I love the sound of this!
Thank you, Greg!
Paris is an excellent setting. This looks so good. ❤️
Thank you, Tessa. I hope it’s as good as it looks!