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The French Guesthouse
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On the night Fliss loses everything – her beloved hotel ravaged by fire and fiancé exposed as a cheat – she receives devastating news: her estranged mother has died. They hadn’t spoken in fifteen years and Fliss has stayed away for her own self-preservation.
Summoned to a dilapidated guesthouse in France for the reading of the will, Fliss is stunned to discover she has been left all her mother’s possessions. But the inheritance comes at a price – both literal and emotional. Sharing the house is Etienne, her mother’s grief-stricken, wine-soaked partner, and his guarded yet magnetic nephew, Benoit.
As Fliss begins restoring the guesthouse, she unearths long-buried secrets about her mother, their past and the true cost of her long absence. But to move forward, cure her guilt and claim the love and happiness she’s never thought she deserves, Fliss must first reckon with the hardest question of all: can she forgive?
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Libourne, France
Isabelle Broom says:
Situated in southwestern France, Libourne sits on the confluence of the Isle and Dordogne rivers. (Fun fact: my working title for this novel, Where Rivers Run Together, was inspired by these waterways). With its sandstone buildings, cobbled squares, Neo-Gothic architecture and lush surrounding landscape, the town is abundant in both beauty and charm. As Fliss observes: “Each dwelling had some unique feature that marked it out as different to the rest, be it an arched entranceway, old-style lanterns fixed to outside walls, or the trailing tendrils of a climbing plant.”
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Destination/location: Libourne Author/guide: Isabelle Broom Departure Time: 2025
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