Michelle Gable’s I’ll See You in Paris winds together the lives of three women born generations apart, but who face similar struggles of love and heartbreak.

After losing her fiancé in the Vietnam War, nineteen-year-old Laurel Haley takes a job in England, hoping the distance will mend her shattered heart. Laurel expects the pain might lessen but does not foresee the beguiling man she meets or that they’ll go to Paris, where the city’s magic will take over and alter everything Laurel believes about love.

Thirty years later, Laurel’s daughter Annie is newly engaged and an old question resurfaces: who is Annie’s father and what happened to him? Laurel has always been vague about the details and Annie’s told herself it doesn’t matter. But with her impending marriage, Annie has to know everything. Why won’t Laurel tell her the truth?

The key to unlocking Laurel’s secrets starts with a mysterious book about an infamous woman known as the Duchess of Marlborough. Annie’s quest to understand the Duchess, and therefore her own history, takes her from a charming hamlet in the English countryside, to a decaying estate kept behind barbed wire, and ultimately to Paris where answers will be found at last.

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While I did have to adjust to the story skipping around in time, and also to the three different story lines – Annie and her mother, the Duchess, and Pru and Win – I got so engrossed in this story that I couldn’t put the book down. It was a fun read, a touching and interesting story, a little romantic, a little about relationships, a little that felt like a mystery.

Go into it with eyes wide shut, if you know what I mean, and don’t try to over-analyze and figure it all out by the halfway mark. Enjoy the well-crafted story!

Find this novel at bookstores or a library near you – or online at Amazon. It published on 2/9. Thank you for my review e-copy!