Losing the Light

One of Redbook's Best Books of 2016 ';A heady cocktail of nostalgia, a seductive Frenchman, a passionate love triangle, and a mysterious disappearance.' The Seattle Times A smart, obsessive debut novel about a young woman studying abroad who becomes caught up in a seductive French worldand a complex web of love and lust.When thirty-year-old Brooke Thompson unexpectedly runs into a man from her past, shes plunged headlong into memories shes long tried to forget about the year she spent in France following a disastrous affair with a professor. As a newly arrived exchange student in the picturesque city of Nantes, young Brooke develops a deep and complicated friendship with Sophie, a fellow American and stunning blonde, whose golden girl faade hides a precarious emotional fragility. Sophie and Brooke soon become inseparable and find themselves intoxicated by their new surroundingsand each other. But their lives are forever changed when they meet a sly, stylish French student, Veronique, and her impossibly sexy older cousin, Alex. The cousins draw Sophie and Brooke into an irresistible world of art, money, decadence, and ultimately, a disastrous love triangle that consumes them both. And of the two of them, only one will make it home.