By Michaela Thompson
Florida transplant Georgia Lee Maxwell doesn't take to Paris initially, although she's a minimum of leaving a no-good guy and a hated task as a society editor. Now she's a Paris correspondent, thanks very much—a dream come precise for any journalist.
There's only a moderate down side—she arrives in freezing rain, will get stuck in a traffic congestion as a result of a bomb scare, and hates her residence; however the genuine Bonjour is discovering herself face down on a museum flooring in the course of a theft. "Killed for an uneventful story!" she thinks. yet because it occurs, she isn't the person who dies. 3 terrifying masked gunmen shoot the unlucky safety guard.
They can have stolen the entire treasures of Monte Cristo's cave, with the intention to converse, however it seems they've made off with just a replicate. actual, it as soon as belonged to the French seer Nostradamus, however it could be the museum's least worthy item.
Does it have a few prophetic skill? Does somebody understand whatever the gendarmes don't? Here's what Georgia Lee understands: If she reveals out first, she's a journalistic hero. If she doesn't, she's useless.
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