[Living the Dream 01] • The Secret Summer Escape

*Can one magical moment change Ellie’s life forever? *

When struggling actress Ellie Bradshaw is told by a celebrity director that her performance is wooden and she should get herself back to acting school, she’s devastated. Even her waitressing job at Bistro Angélique can’t raise a smile this time, and she wonders whether it’s time to shelve her dreams and return home to Oxford.

Marc Bouvier , the bistro's handsome French owner with a penchant for collecting shiny culinary appliances, is desperate for Ellie to stay, and to keep producing the delicious desserts their customers swoon over, otherwise the bistro will have to close.

And then it happens…

That one magical moment that changes the direction of Ellie’s life forever.

But will that be the glittering success of her acting career? Or helping Marc to save the little French bistro with her quirky pâtisserie? Or maybe the director of fate has something a little more romantic in mind for Ellie...

Please Note : The Secret Summer Escape was previously published as Bella's Little French Bistro.