Karen Clarke Summer at the Little French Cafe A Romantic Mystery

Summer at the Little French Cafe by Karen Clarke blends a mystery with a romance in a wonderful theme of family and friends. Eloise Matheson has decided to take a week away from her photography studio and search for answers. Elle has always known her realtime mother and birth mother were two different people. Her birth mother was a beautiful French woman who surprised her father one night with a newborn baby nine months after their one-night affair. Her father never knew the woman's real name and when the baby was shockingly presented to him, all he had was a memory, a new baby, a shawl, a charm bracelet, and a postcard. He had left the items in a travel bag in his closet for years. After his death, Elle finds the items which are associated with the way she was presented to her father when she was about a week old. Why did he keep the items a secret when he had been honest with her about her conception? Elle journeys to the Île de Ré and approaches the cafe which was printed on the postcard, the  Café Belle Vie. The choices she makes as she searches for the mysterious "M" set her future on a different path. Elle's search becomes more than seeking for answers about who her birth mother is, and leads her to new answers about her own self-discovery.
Publication Date June 27, 2019
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Photograph by Diane Lochala