Second Chance

Fiona Monaghan edits New York's leading fashion magazine and splits her time between Manhattan and Europe. She is happy with her life, her crowded closets and her snoring bulldog, Sir Winston, until John Anderson walks into her office on a sweltering day.

John is a widower with two daughters, and he is as conservative as Fiona is freewheeling. Her world of high-strung designers and anorexic models both amuses and appalls him. Fiona invites him on impulse to the Paris couture shows, and between the runway and a walk along the Seine she falls for him.

Back in New York, John befriends Sir Winston and Fiona clears space in her closets. Then the complications arrive. His daughters are hostile, and they come with a bloodthirsty Pekingese and a snarling housekeeper. A dinner party with John's biggest client goes badly, and the relationship starts to come apart fast.

Fiona's response sends her through pain and revelation, and she risks everything by going back to Paris alone. There, in the snow, a run of unexpected events begins. This is a contemporary romance with a light, comic touch, set in the fashion world, about sudden attraction, the upheaval of change and starting over.