I'm stingy with my five stars, but felt the need to give this book five stars, as I could find no fault with it. This is not my usual genre, now I will search for similar. It is pure thriller/intrigue with no gratuitous sex or explicit violence. The three friends come from very different backgrounds, but they come together in a manner that their friendship is believable and due to their disparate backgrounds, the story has more options for people and settings. Robertson's characters are well fleshed and the story interesting with enough suspense to hold the reader's interest. thank you goodreads.com for this free ARC, with expectation of fair/unbiased review

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Told over the course of one season, a winter in Paris, Maud is struggling to make ends meet while pursuing her love of painting. Through a fantastic chance, she is paired with a "couple" who are in need of a companion and life looks like it may be on the up and up - so she thinks! Divided into two parts, the first part centering around her time with this interesting couple and the second part is after a major event occurs.

First, let me say that the first few times I picked up this book to read I only had a moment or two to read and once Part Two came around, I had some really good chunks of time and was able to really get in and read it. On that note, the first part read a little slow to me and I flew through the second, there was also quite a bit more action in the second part which I loved. Without the second part picking up, I am not sure I would have liked this book as much.

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Exciting, twisting tale of the Haves and Have-nots of Paris.
Maud is an art student in a time that doesn't recognize women for much of anything. Women are rich and pampered, or servants to the well-to-do citizens, the in-betweens who model or try to rise above the undesirable people that are hardly ever seen. Maud is in danger of freezing through a brutal and challenging winter in Paris if she doesn't find a plan to provide for herself. The model in art class with the help of another well-to-do student find Maud employment as a tutor to a gentleman's young sister. What happens will keep you interested and thinking of this cast of characters well after you close the book to do things in your life. You'll be drawn back to them, their personnel predictaments and the flooding of Paris in 1910. I only put this book down when I had to do so. The charcters are richly woven so that they can't be ignored. Even the ones you don't like.
This story will leave you shocked and surprised throughout and the last quarter to third of the book will have you ignoring your name as it is called.
Highly recommend!
So good!

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