June 1917. Arriving in France, General John Pershing found himself unable to communicate with troops in the field. Pershing needed operators who could swiftly and accurately connect multiple calls, speak fluent French and English, remain steady under fire, and be utterly discreet. Well-trained American telephone operators were women-- who were not permitted to enlist. But the U.S. Army Signal Corps promptly began recruiting them. Grace Banker of New...

In 1959 Paris, when they receive invitations to attend an exclusive dusk to dawn ball at the Palace of Versailles where they’ll be presented to international society and royalty, four young woman find their lives forever changed during this one transcendent night.

"Forty-something workaholic Sara Graves thought her chance for an outrageous life was over... until she met and married a charming Frenchman who left her widowed three weeks later. Suddenly she is the heiress to an estate she can't afford to keep and uncovering secrets she never wanted to know. Does she have the courage to leave her home, her country, and everything she's ever known for a second chance at family... and love?"--Author's website.

Two years after her husband suddenly dies, Mary Davis finds herself alone and distant from her only daughter Liz, who has taken control of the family business. While browsing through an antiques store, she stumbles across the framed motto, "It is never too late to be what you might have been." Despite Li's protests, Mary is inspired and resolves to travel to Paris, where she has arranged a private reconciliation with an old flame in their favorite...