Publisher: Harper Collins
Genre: Romance
Source: Library

Goodreads: Widowed by an unspeakable tragedy, Camille Palmer has made her peace with the past and settled into the quiet safety of life with her teenage daughter Julie in a sleepy coastal town. Then the arrival of a mysterious package breaks open the door to her family’s secret past. In uncovering a hidden history, Camille has no idea that she’s embarking on an adventure that will utterly transform her.

Camille, Julie, and Camille’s father return to the French town of his youth, sparking  unexpected memories — recollections that will lead them back to the dark days of the Second World War. And it is in the stunning Provençal countryside that they will uncover their family’s surprising history.

While Provence offers answers about the past, it also holds the key to Camille’s future. Along the way, she meets a former naval officer who stirs a passion deep within her — a feeling that she thought she’d never experience again.

Ope’s Opinion: I listened to this book from my library. It was just okay. It felt like a really long story. The narrator was amazing at female voices, but her male voices sounded like robots and talked real slow. I got used to that part after a while.

There are several romances going on at the same time. All of them are slow moving ones and the details are mostly left behind closed doors.

There were several places where I felt like the characters had a sudden change of attitude or change of heart. It just didn’t seem to happen naturally. The ending felt like everything was solved all of a sudden.