Once In Paris

Okay, so I've done it. I've lost my Diana Palmer virginity. I thought for sure I'd read her at some point, but I would remembered a writing voice like that!  I just borrowed and read Once In Paris, and if you like the jet setting, learning about love, evil step father contemporary romances you are in for a treat.

While a student at a French boarding school, Brianne sees a man at the Louvre who looks despondent and sad, as though he looks through the paintings instead of at them. She thinks she recognizes him, and after a moment she is sure of it. He is Pierce Hutton, one of her father's business rivals. She had attended a function with him not long ago, and she has since learned his wife has died. She goes up to him and speaks to him, tells him everything will be ok. He is very gruff with her, but at the end she makes him laugh and goes on about her way.

A short time later, Brianne goes toward a pub to get a glass of wine and Pierce is there, drowning his sorrows. She sits with him and hugs him while he cries, then she helps him to his hotel suite, and puts him to bed. The way she cares for him, seems to bring something back to life for Pierce. He offers to pay for her college - wherever she would like to attend - and on her way out the door she tells him he will be the one to be her first lover...when he has finished grieving for his late wife.

This is a truly wonderful story. It goes deeper than just surface romance; theirs is a complicated love, in a complicated world of the foreign oil business. I finished the book in one sitting, and wished I had checked out every Diana Palmer book at my local library so I could quickly delve into another of her stories. I have become a fan with just one book.

I will be looking for more Diana Palmer, and I highly recommend Once in Paris.

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