Audio Book Description:
Carole Barber has come to Paris, with its rain-slick slate roofs and winding streets, to work on her novel-and to find herself after a lifetime in thespotlight. A legend of film andstage, Carole has set a standard of beauty and grace, devotingherself to her family and causes around the world. But on thiscool November evening, as her taxi speeds into a tunnel just past the Louvre, a fieryinstant of terror shatters hundreds of lives-and leavesCarole alone, unconscious and unidentified in a Parisemergency room. At the Ritz, they wonder where their famous,incognito guest has gone. FromCalifornia to London, Carole`s friends and family begin to make inquiries. Thencomes a moment of shock as they all realizethat Carole is far from home andfighting for her life. In the days that follow, the paparazzi swarm. A mysterious stranger, a man famous in his ownrealm, quietly visits thehospital to see the woman he once loved and never forgot. Carole`s two grown children rush to her bedside, waiting and praying-until the miraculous beginsto happen...But as a woman who the wholeworld knows slowly awakens, she knows nothing of herself. Every detail must be pieced back together-from a childhoodin rural Mississippi to the early days of her career, from theunintentional hurt inflicted on her daughter to a fifteenyear-old secret love affairthat went tragically wrong. Butfor Carole an extraordinaryopportunity has arisen in alife-threatening crisis:a second chance to count her blessings,heal wounded hearts, recapture lost love...and to live a life that will truly honor others-beginning with herself.
