A Train from Penzance to Paris

When Maisie accepts a celebrated author's invitation to mentor her, she finds herself leaving Cornwall behind on train tracks bound for the glitter city of Paris. Instead of making beds and serving coffee at the Penmarrow hotel in Cornwall, she's making notes on her manuscript while sitting in a French cafe, meeting famous writers at private dinner parties, and trying to ferret the secrets behind the author's unfinished future novel. It's glamorous, it's breathtaking ... but it's also an ocean channel away from the place that she loves, and, more importantly, the person to whom she just recently confessed her deepest feelings. Separated from Sidney by distance and circumstances, Maisie fears that their connection will be lost despite her words to him and maybe because of those words, and the ones she didn't allow him to say in return.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of things in her new life trying to distract her the professional editor hired to critique her...