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THE MEETING POINT

What if the Lift driver who finds your cheating boyfriend's phone holds the directions to true love?

'Who are you and why do you have my boyfriend's phone?'

'He left it in my car. You must be the blonde in the red dress? I'm the Lift driver who dropped you two off earlier.'

And with these words, the life of the brunette and t-shirt wearing Maya Maas is turned upside down. Having planned to surprise her boyfriend, she finds herself single and stranded in an unknown city on her birthday.

So when the mystery driver rescues Maya with the suggestion that she cheers herself up at a nearby beach town, she jumps at the chance to get things back on track. She wasn't expecting a personalised itinerary or the easy companionship that comes from opening up to a stranger via text, let alone the possibility it might grow into something more...

Come on this 5* journey to love, laughter and back again, perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane, Josie Silver and Sally Thorne.

E-book: September 2021 (Aria/HOZ/Bloomsbury)

Paperback (UK): December 2021, (US): April 2022 (Aria/HOZ/Bloomsbury)

Audiobook: October 2022 (SAGA Egmont)

German Edition (ebook and paperback) July 2023 (Harper Collins)

SOMEDAY IN PARIS

Finding the one is only the beginning...

1954 — Zara is fifteen the first time she meets Leon. During a power cut in a small French museum, the two spend one short hour in the dark talking about their love for art, Monet and Paris. Neither knows what the other looks like. Both know their lives will never be the same.

1963 — In Paris, Leon no longer believes he will ever find the girl he lost that night. After dreaming about him for years, Zara thinks she has already found him. When they meet at an exhibition, they don't recognize each other – yet the way they feel is so familiar...

Over the course of twenty years Zara and Leon are destined to fall in love again and again. But will they ever find a way to be together?

‘It's about dreams and taking chances. Missed opportunities and mistakes. Loss and sacrifice. But above all, it is about love. The kind of love that survives time, distance... even death. The kind of love I wish for you.’

The magical new love story, perfect for hopeless romantics and fans of One Day and The Notebook.

E-book: May 2020 || Print Edition (POD): August 2020

Audiobook: October 2022 (SAGA Egmont)

ABOUT OLIVIA

Born and raised in Romania in a family of book lovers and storytellers, Olivia studied marketing, communications, and photography and worked as a journalist for a newspaper and news television network.

An unapologetic citizen of the world, she spent a few years in Greece, Sweden, and France before settling in sunny California with her photographer husband and daughter, where she writes & works in marketing. Oh, and let's not forget the ever-growing menagerie that completes the family: Pumpkin—a Maine Coon mix, three black cats, and a Siamese kitten.

When she's not writing or thinking about writing, she reads (across all genres), watches old movies, and collects vintage books, vinyl records, and eerie paintings.

SOMEDAY IN PARIS, her debut, published by Aria Fiction/Head of Zeus in May 2020, became a B&N, Apple, Kobo, and Amazon Top 100 Bestseller and was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel Awards in 2021. Her second novel, THE MEETING POINT, was published as an e-book in September 2021 and in paperback in December 2021 (UK) and April 2022 (US).

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