Winter Pleasure and French Lingerie

Books in the Sex and the Seasons series are standalone novels. Four sassy heroines, four contemporary love stores, hot, sizzling, dramatic and tender, a book for each season.Plain, thirty-one-year-old Allyson Reid, the talented costume mistress at the York Street Playhouse in Ottawa, Canada, vows to live it up while in Paris on a temporary fashion assignment. During her stay in the City of Lights, she intends to forget the man who is the object of her unrequited love and focus on having a good time. And she does, for Jean-Charles Sabourin, Baron de Damas, a wealthy, philandering French aristocrat, offers her the kind of fun and luxury that was easy to get used to. A Cinderella-like transformation takes place, and when Allyson returns to Ottawa at the end of December, she is a rich, glamorous woman with business plans of her own: a boutique for French lingerie opening on St. Valentine’s Day. Weeks later, the affair with Jean-Charles comes back to haunt her, triggering a chain of events that spins Allyson’s new life out of control with more drama and suspense than any play produced at the York Street Playhouse. Suddenly, her reputation is muddied, the source of her wealth questioned; the success of her boutique and the costumes for the York Street Playhouse are jeopardized. To top it off, Robert Wales, the new man in her life, turns his back on her, suspicious of her apparently dubious past. And that’s not the end of her bad luck, far from it.Winter Pleasure and French Lingerie is about a woman’s search for romance and love and her determination to remain strong during times of adversity.