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Plot Summary of Invitation to Provence
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St. Martin's, Sep 2004, 24.95, 352 pp.
ISBN: 0312308116

Southern California veterinarian Franny Marten is stunned to learn that her long distance romance with Atlanta based Marcus Marks is over as he not only has a wife, he sent her to break it off with her. The spouse Clare and Franny hit it off and the former persuades the latter to take up her Aunt Rafaella Marten des Sauvages' invitation to spend three weeks in Provence at a family gathering although she never even knew this aunt existed.

Franny, accompanied by Clare, goes to France where she is shocked by her dysfunctional relatives who seem at war with one another in spite of the warm welcoming from her elderly aunt. Worse someone wants Franny to remain in the dark about family secrets and will go to great lengths to achieve this objective; Franny wonders if her nasty cousin Alain would harm her. However, the biggest emotional roller coaster is Jake Bronson, who she falls in love with.

Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar

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