Author: clairedoyle

What if you fell in love during a terror attack?Laura McLove—bored, single, 49—takes a Christmas shopping trip to Paris and does just that, finding refuge in the arms of a handsome Hungarian, Max, who she meets at her hotel reception on a fateful, violent night in December.Six months later, now engaged to be married, she arrives at Max’s family’s villa at Hungary’s Lake Balaton whilst he attends … Balaton whilst he attends to his sick mother in Budapest.Alone at Levendula—Lavender Villa—she encounters villa caretaker Mrs Szabó and stumbles on a real-life spy ring, a missing manuscript—and a mystery that leads…

What if the past is a foreign country? BUDAPEST Laura McLove–lover of music and dance alike–encounters Zoltán, a handsome Hungarian dancer, and returns to Budapest to find him and for closure on some strange events that occurred nearly twenty years ago. Arriving downtown on Franz Liszt Square, Laura enrols an old friend in her search around Budapest bars and nightclubs, all the while telling the … around Budapest bars and nightclubs, all the while telling the story of the winter she lived there on the square, when she found herself the fall-girl at the centre of a peculiar musical instrument…