Love From Paris – Alexander Potter

It’s dark inside but for a shaft of moonlight shining through a gap in the shutters, which have been left slightly ajar, casting everything in a pearlescent glow. Usually I’m a little afraid of the dark – it always feels slightly spooky – but tonight the moonlight makes it feel almost enchanted.

Closing the door behind me, I make my way further inside the main drawing room, retracing the steps Emmanuelle would have taken after her first chance meeting with Henry at the café. My mind flashes back to the letters, how he talks about walking her home. After saying goodnight, maybe she even stood by this window and watched his departing figure, I reflect, glancing out at the street below, at the yellow circles of light being cast from the streetlamps onto the cobbles.

It’s quiet, there’s no one around, apart from a stray cat that makes its way stealthily in and out of the shadows. I can picture Henry now, hands in his pockets, smile on his face as he walked home on air, bathed in that happy glow you get when you’ve met someone you’re crazy about. And Emmanuelle, intrigued by this writer from Brooklyn, secretly hoping he would contact her, gazing out into the night.

Just like I’m doing now, over seventy years later. I turn away from the window. Here alone, without Harriet and Xavier, it’s just me and the ghosts of the past. Slipping off my shoes so I don’t make a noise on the parquet floors, I pad quietly through the rooms, careful not to disturb anything. I notice a few things have been moved and Harriet has left a few files, but mostly it’s still as it was.

Overhead the chandelier rattles, the crystal droplets making a faint chinking as they swing back and forth, and my heart skips a beat. I glance around me, half expecting to see someone, but there’s nothing. It must be just the neighbours upstairs.

Praise for The Love Detective and Alexandra Potter ‘Magical, fun and romantic, this feel-good read is guaranteed to lift your mood.’ Closer ‘This book is something special; it’s real, funny and magical, taking you on a whirlwind adventure through India . . . It would make the perfect holiday read at any time of the year.’ Onemorepage.co.uk ‘The type of fun fiction we can’t resist’ Stylist ‘A new Alexandra Potter book is always something to celebrate. She’s one of the only chick lit authors who puts a magical spin on her novels, and she’s always successful at it .

. . a great read’ Chicklitreviewsandnews.com ‘Funny, light and a great summer read – whether you’re lying on a sunlounger or sitting on the train to work. A fab modern-day love story with a touch of magic.’ Fabulous ‘Yet again Alexandra Potter has written an upbeat, quirky piece of chick lit that can’t help but bring a smile to your face’ Novelicious.com ‘Always perceptive, often funny, never dull’ Heat ‘Feel-good fiction full of unexpected twists and turns’ OK!

‘A touching, funny love story’ Company ‘Fantastically funny’ Elle OceanofPDF.com About the author Alexandra Potter is an award-winning author who previously worked as a features writer and sub-editor for women’s glossies in both the UK and Australia. In 2007 she won the prize for Best New Fiction at the Jane Austen Regency World Awards for her bestselling novel, Me and Mr Darcy. Her novels have been translated into seventeen languages and You’re the One That I Don’t Want is being adapted into a film.

She now lives between London and Los Angeles and writes full-time. You can find out more at www.alexandrapotter.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Alexandra.Potter.Author or follow her on Twitter @AlexPotterBooks. OceanofPDF.com Also by Alexandra Potter The Love Detective Don’t You Forget About Me You’re the One That I Don’t Want Who’s That Girl? Me and Mr Darcy Be Careful What You Wish For Do You Come Here Often?

Calling Romeo What’s New, Pussycat? Going La La OceanofPDF.com www.hodder.co.uk OceanofPDF.com First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Hodder & Stoughton An Hachette UK company Copyright © Alexandra Potter 2015 The right of Alexandra Potter to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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