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Lily Heller’s affaire de coeur with Paris has existed almost as long as her love for books. Smitten with the city’s literary Golden Age of the twenties, the young bookstore clerk from Denver dreams of a life like that of bold expatriate Sylvia Beach, who founded the famed Shakespeare and Company bookshop and became her own literary legend.

An impromptu trip to the City of Light carries Lily further than her imagination ever took her. Arriving unexpectedly in 1937 Paris—penniless, friendless, and clueless—Lily must rely on her wobbly French and her wits. But a mysterious invitation offers her entrée into the glittering inner circle of Sylvia Beach herself. This clue leads her further into the complex and dangerous Paris on the brink of war—and it’s not the friendly literary community she had imagined.

Lily becomes a character inside the world that she had fantasized about—but with chilling consequences. In her quest to return home, Lily finds herself enmeshed in an undercover league of time-traveling bibliophiles. Charged with a daunting task, along the way Lily falls for a gallant young Frenchman, discusses the art of writing with Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, and runs afoul of a dashing Nazi agent.

In order to escape unscathed, Lily must make choices that force her to reconcile her past and that may revise literary history forever. A celebration of a timeless city’s allure, an engaging romantic fantasy, and a valentine to book lovers in every era, Chasing Sylvia Beach is a novel to savor and be spellbound by.

Sometimes we just want to be left alone with a good book. As a girl, I was lucky – both of my parents worked outside the home. That meant many afternoons as a ‘latchkey’ child – and many happy hours alone with books. Books expanded my small town Ohio world and gave me a rich experience of imagination and exploration. Beyond reading, I was drawn to catalogue my books. I kept a log of what I read and what I thought about them. My local library saw me as a weekly visitor, schlepping stacks of books to and fro with dogged regularity. I still visit the library every week, as well as my local independent bookstore, The Tattered Cover. These bookish inclinations rooted deep within me. I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I didn’t know that I would become a writer’s coach, dedicating my career to not only writing my own books, but to helping others write theirs. I’m the author of Create Your Writer’s Life: A Guide to Writing with Joy and Ease, and the novel Chasing Sylvia Beach. I continue to read as much as I write. My work as a writer's coach can be found at my online home, Original Impulse.