The Paris Novel Rebecca Caprara a former student who has

a former student who has lost the will to live

She has no love for the vicious king who rules from his throne of glass

he decides to leave the reef and strike out on his own

the sparks flying between him and this hothouse rose would erupt into a five-alarm blaze—and they'd both be engulfed by the night smoke

Covert Joy offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story:

The Paris Novel Rebecca Caprara a former student who hasStella reached for an oyster, tipped her head, and tossed it back. It was cool and slippery, the flavor so briny it was like diving into the ocean. Oysters, she thought. Where have they been all my life? When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one way plane ticket and a note reading Go to Paris. Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic childhood has kept her confined to the strict routines of her