Between painting rooms, building a website, and getting to know Bing, the irritatingly attractive artist, Lucy finds an unexpected home. Lucy is now in charge of turning the run-down, but charming hotel into a bustling tourist attraction. She pictures fur quilts and extravagant chandeliers, but what she finds is wildly different. Two years later, forty-nine years old and unemployed, Lucy takes a job in Rennes, France to manage the Hotel Paradis. But when the owner disappears, taking millions of dollars with him, Lucy's life as she knows it falls apart. Once the hotel manager of a glamorous NYC hotel and intimately involved with the hotel’s owner, Lucy had her entire future planned out. She has continued publishing with Amazon and has self-published several books including A Safe Place To Land, which garnered a Rita Award nomination as Contemporary Romance Novel: Short.Dee Ernst's Lucy Checks In is a delightful work of romantic comedy about a disgraced hotel manager who travels to Rennes to rebuild a hotel and her own life in the process. She self-published her first novel in 2012, Better Off Without Him, which became an Amazon bestseller with nearly 70,000 copies sold when Amazon picked it up in 2013 for their Montlake line.
She began to write about women like herself -slightly older, confident, and with a wealth of life experience to draw upon. Although she always loved reading women’s fiction and romantic comedy, she never loved the twenty-something heroines who couldn’t figure out how to go about getting what they wanted. As sparks fly with both men, can Maggie finish her book and find her happily-ever-after?ĭee Ernst was born and raised in New Jersey, which explains a great deal about her attitude towards life.
But then her ex-husband shows up in Paris to see their daughter as well, and it seems that he might be interested in rekindling a romance with Maggie. Even better, on arrival she meets a charming and sexy Frenchman, Max, the housekeeper’s son, who becomes her writing inspiration. When her agent offers her a chance to get away to his apartment in Paris, complete with his housekeeper, how can she refuse? She can write undisturbed and pampered in the most beautiful and inspiring city in the world, and she can visit her daughter who is studying in France.
A forty-something, bestselling romance author, Maggie needs to finish the last novel of her current trilogy except she has the worst case of writer’s block of her career. Martin’s Griffin, April 2021 ( voir catalogue) A sparkling romantic comedy starring a bestselling author who goes to Paris to overcome writer’s block and rediscovers family, independence, and love along the way.
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