Promises to Keep by Patricia Sands

Promises to Keep is the second book in the Love in Provence series by Patricia Sands.  I read and thoroughly enjoyed Love in Provence, so I was looking forward to reading Promises to Keep.  As I had hoped, it did not disappoint.

Promises to Keep continues where Love in Provence left off.  Katherine has returned to France to start a life with Philippe.  This entire book is a love story.  It is a love story between Katherine and Phillip, a love story between Katherine and France, and a love story between Katherine and the French people that she meets.  I admit, I am drawn to anything about France (even though I have never been there), so I find all the little details so enthralling.

I love reading about the traditions in France and the gorgeous countryside.  I’m not really a romance reader, but putting the romance in France, definitely adds to it’s appeal.  There is also a bit of a conflict to stir the story up a bit.  Besides being a love story, it’s also about a woman in her fifties, restarting and redeveloping herself.  Finding the woman she is that was lost during her marriage.

There’s a bit of everything for everyone in this story.  Completely charming.

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