The Monet Deception

Anne Biron and her aunt, Lorraine Landin, have been touring France for several weeks, but it isn't until Anne steps into Fenwick Travel in Nice that strange things begin to happen. Anne finds herself stared at, and later in the village that the travel agent recommended, the staring continues. She discovers she is an exact image of the Countess Marie-Claire d'Aspremont, the patroness of the village who lived three hundred years before. Her likeness to the countess, and curiosity by Count Alexandre, propel her into an adventure that fate seems to have ordained for her. Her life time love and knowledge of art and her recent Master's Degree in Art History from Yale, make her double aware of subtle changes in some of the paintings at the young count's home, which lead her to believe that some of the Impressionist painting s have been forged. The die is cast, and it begins-- the danger, the mystery, the kidnapping and the developing love story, all of which eventually lead to the answers the young Alexandre has sought since his parents were killed in a plane crash taking paintings to be appraised five years before.