Fourth and Final Part of a Four Part Complete SeriesThey say that Paris is the city of love. For Kenneth Delos, the ex-mayor of London, it’s something else; the city of his love, the city of his youth, the city of his heartbreak.Paris is the city that holds his deepest, darkest secrets.It’s the place where he first fell in and out of love. It’s the place where Michelle Spencer left him and their … Spencer left him and their children. It’s the city of his past, and it holds a history that won’t stay buried.
Now years after his time in Paris, Kenneth and Michelle tell their children of their history in Paris.
This is a companion Novelette to the rest of The History Series and can be read as a Stand-Alone.
A History In Paris follows Clara (the main protagonist from The History Series)’s parents as they meet, fall in love and start their family. This is the history that Clara has been hiding from.
More About The History Series
Clara and Andrew have been in love since their childhoods. He’s both the first boy she ever liked and the first boy she ever hated. Andrew used to tease Clara when they were younger and now when they are thrust together for work, years later, finally their love has the chance to develop. Now Andrew knows how to tell Clara he loves her without teasing her but is Clara able to trust him? Andrew wants Clara but Clara just wants to be able to work in peace. That is until they decide to give each other a chance. Their relationship quickly develops but history keeps coming back to haunt them, not just once or twice but repeatedly. Can their love overcome their past?
The banter is quick witted, unprofessional and downright naughty as this pair try to find out if they have a future together despite their past, in this second chance, from love to enemies romance.
More Books In The History Series
Repeating History, Deleting History, Forging History & A History In Paris
The History Series is the second series in a British Contemporary Romance Saga – Hanleigh’s London – and is followed by The Intimacy Series.
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This was a sad book to read. The story takes place in between Deleting History and Forging History. It’s short and brutal story of how Clara finds out about her mother and the story behind it. It ends abruptly, ready for you to go immediately into Forging History. I’m glad I read it because it answers a lot of questions but it was hard to read.
What a sweet intense read that pulls you right in.
Everyone seems to forget that our parents led entire lives with and without each other before us. We forget/or neglect to acknowledge that their lives weren’t perfect. They felt love, friendship, pain, insecurities, heart break and made some questionable decisions. This book reminds you that no matter how much you think you know about your parents, you don’t know it all. Also reminds you that your parents might have been a little more adventurous than you know them to be today. I found this book filled with love and tragedy. Disappointment and explanations. The decision to let go of the past or maybe not being willing to forgive. Everyone in this story handles the same love and loss differently. This was a great read and I would definitely read it again.
A History in Paris is not your typical love story. Bradley introduces us to Kenneth Delos a 20-something-year-old who escapes to Paris. He is running away from his parents who have dreams of Kenneth becoming a politician. However, it’s not what he wants. While he is there trying to sort himself out, Kenneth meets Michelle. A woman studying French literature. They start off as strangers, then friends, and eventually lovers. Kenneth decides that he will stay in Paris because of Michelle. But Michelle feels that she might be holding him back from his future.
As the two get closer, both Kenneth and Michelle refuse to tell their parents about their relationship. The book transitions from the past to the present. The story is told by both Kenneth and Michelle’s perspectives. Kenneth and Michelle settle into their lives in Paris, but never tell their parents about their relationship and the pregnancy of their first child.
Eventually, the burden becomes too much and they leave the city where they elope. But once they come back to Paris, the weight of the lie is too much and it tests the marriage.
Once their first son is born, things seem normal. However, when Michelle’s parents write about her coming home (by this time they have three children). Michelle’s fear of being disowned by her parents causes the rift between her and Kenneth which ultimately makes her leave for home and never return.
Michelle divorces Kenneth, leaving him to raise the three children on his own (with the help of his parents).
Analysis:
What I found interesting about the book was the fact that despite Michelle’s fears of Kenneth going back to England and becoming a politician, she was right. Michelle wanted to keep her life and her family she created with Kenneth in Paris in private. The decision to not tell her parents and never sending the letter made it a little bit easier for her. On the other hand, I believe that it was her choice to leave coupled with Kenneth’s inability to take care of the children which ultimately causes Kenneth to become Mayor.
Hanleigh does a great job of showing the complexity of the relationship between Kenneth and Michelle. It was a relationship made of good and bad decisions, some worse than others. These two were never meant to last. But at least they will always have Paris.
This story is definitely sad. Also quite unbelievable. But seems real still. It started so sweetly. And finished bitter. No happy ever after, but that’s real life ending after all. I appreciated it. I didn’t read others books in this series, but this companion book can be read separately.
This story had me crying. I can’t really say much without giving anything away. This is the final book on the series. I enjoy reading this authors work.
Kenneth and Michelle’s story was bittersweet. Having read Clara’s books and Aurora’s books, I already had an idea of how this had to end. It was a beautiful romance, even though it was doomed.
The well written storyline and the well rounded characters made this book a very enjoyable and entertaining read! I look forward to reading more from this author!
This was a wonderful book to read. It was lovely and heartbreaking, full of sad truths and a sad ending. I don’t think the author wanted it to be your typical book, she put real purpose into the characters and their story. She made you stick to the story until the very end. This is one of those books that you’d love be turned into a movie.
This is my first book by Hanleigh Bradley and I absolutely loved it.
Paris is everything to him and his life started there. He found love and lost it. It is where he lost his children and wife who left him. Now they decide to explain it all to their children. See how they will all get on
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this couple met and began building a family in Paris. Before the age of cell phone and snapchat, and facetime or skype.
She never wanted to admit to her family that they were married – and with children.
She never told her parents, even when she returned to England and he wrote to her.
Months abandoned, he finally wrote to her that he had returned to England with his parents, that the children and he missed her dearly and wanted to hear from her – and she returned divorce papers.
Oddly, he let his folks continue to think that he was widowed. He never remarried. She did, and had two daughters, with a husband who knew the truth, and children who did not. She met rarely for lunch with her sons, was refused contact by their daughter, and was only forced to tell her family the truth when it was picked up by the press.
He wants their daughter to hear the whole of the story from him to encourage her to not let her own heart stay broken with her own broken love.
achingly sad, though the story starts so sweet and full of promise. you cannot remain someone’s dirty little secret though and remain happy.
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Ms. Bradley is a master storyteller only she can deliver a story that is straight up intense and out there! It opens up feelings inside of you. It is so vivid you feel as though you have a seat at the table as the story unfolds giving you a look into what the characters are feeling and reacting. This story is captivating and hard to put down.
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AMAZING!HEARTFELT!
A sad broken story that gives you better insight into the past lives of the characters we’ve opened our hearts to laying their deep throbbing wounds open that molded them into who they’ve become and why they love and live without feeling the true joy that love and life has to offer! Raw, intense, edgy, a war of painful heartfelt emotions, engrossing twists and at times hard to put down! An amazing must read!
This was a wonderful book to read. It was lovely and heartbreaking, full of sad truths and a sad ending. I don’t think the author wanted it to be your typical book, she put real purpose into the characters and their story. She made you stick to the story until the very end. This is one of those books that you’d love be turned into a movie.
This is my first book by Hanleigh Bradley and I absolutely loved it. I received this book in return for an honest review.
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