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Sophie is stuck. Trapped in the make believe world of film sets and call sheets, nothing in her life feels real. When she receives a call out of blue informing she’s entitled her portion of inheritance from a recently deceased French ancestor (newsflash – she has French ancestors?), she immediately packs her bags. Arriving in Provence, she’s hoping for sun, wine, and maybe – if she’s lucky ­– some French saucisson. Immediately, Sophie falls under the spell of the crumbling Chateau Lavande, and she feels herself more than falling for Thibault, the impossibly sexy vineyard manager.

Based on a true love story, this adult romance introduces us to Emma Sorensen, an American woman and art curator, and Luc Stronheim, a Frenchman and industrialist, who fell deeply in love as teenagers in 1960 and were then inexplicably separated by their parents. When they meet again in Paris in 1982, they realize a happy future together will be impossible, until they solve the mystery surrounding a Rembrandt that links his father’s questionable Nazi past and her grandfather’s death in Auschwitz.

I'll begin with the war, when everything changed for us. In 1943, our comfortable family life came to an abrupt end, thanks to Hitler. During the Nazi occupation of Athens, Daphne, a young Greek Jewish artist, finds her life suddenly under threat. She's in love with her Austrian art teacher, and...