City of Light

Sylvia Trocadero, a junior-level corporate lawyer, is a rising star at Taylor & Hitch Investment Strategies.  She is a talented, intelligent young woman with superb debating skills, a brilliant academic background, and an uncanny intuition.  Success in both her career and personal life seems within reach until her bosses give her an unusual assignment. 

She is tasked with getting a bestselling novelist to sign a multi-million dollar, ten-year contract.  She meets the man in Paris, determined to succeed and receive the incredible bonus and promotion she has been offered as a reward.  But the client's stubbornness and his contempt for her test not only her professional acumen but her very soul.  She reluctantly follows the man all over the city, fighting him over his refusal to sign the contract.  But in the process, something happens that turns Sylvia's world upside down.

Both the writer's words and the unusual places they visit, including an astonishing discovery beneath the streets of Paris, resurrect a long lost dream in her heart and a terrible tragedy from her past.  By the end of the negotiations, Sylvia is faced with a frightening choice and must determine whether her true desires are worth losing everything she’s accomplished...