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Paris is Always a Good Idea

by Jenn McKinlay · 2020

It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong post-college European adventure. Since then, she's lost her mother to cancer and watched her sister marry twice, while Chelsea's thrown herself into work… more

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Bad things happen to everyone. Full stop. The only grace to be found was in how you handled it.
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This was the beauty of Paris. When something didn't go as expected, there was always something else to see, do, taste, or feel.
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If you can, always be yourself, unless you can be Batman, then always be Batman.
May love and laughter light your days.” “And warm your heart and home,
There are Good Ships, there Wood Ships, there are Ships that sail the sea. The best Ships are Friendships, and may they always be!
The part of me that had been hallowed out by loss began to fill with lightness and love. I felt healed. And it wasn't because I'd found my own self but rather because I'd finally accepted myself for exactly who I was.
We understand that pieces of our hearts will always belong to those who are gone. For us, love and loss are forever entwined, making us love more cautiously but also more deeply.
You know something, Knightley? You're not so bad when I'm an ocean away from you." "Sadly, you're not the first woman to say that," he said.

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It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong post-college European adventure. Since then, she's lost her mother to cancer and watched her sister marry twice, while Chelsea's thrown herself into work, becoming one of the most talented fundraisers for the American Cancer Coalition, and with the exception of one annoyingly competent coworker, Jason Knightley, her status as most talented fundraiser is unquestioned.

When her introverted mathematician father announces he's getting remarried, Chelsea is forced to acknowledge that her life stopped after her mother died, and that the last time she can remember being happy, in love, or enjoying her life was on her gap year. Inspired to retrace her steps--to find Colin in Ireland, Jean Claude in France, and Marcelino in Italy--Chelsea hopes that one of these three men who stole her heart so many years ago, can help her fin

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First published
2020
Genre
Romance
Goodreads rating
3.72 (17k ratings)

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