A Rather Charming Invitation

Her work has been hailed as "a return to the golden age of romantic suspense," and Belmond is back with her beloved characters and their search for a missing bridal tapestry.

Dateline: London, Paris, Antibes. It's time to get down to wedding planning. But while heiress Penny's distant relatives insist that the nuptials be held in their native France, Jeremy's kin won't have it anywhere but England. And either choice might just re-ignite the Hundred Years' War...

Then, in a family château high above the perfume fields of Grasse, Penny's French cousin offers her the loan of an ancient bridal tapestry. But Penny has barely begun to crack its perplexing imagery before a series of strange events unfolds, threatening to derail the wedding. From a secret chalet on Lake Geneva, to a nostalgic stop at the opulent Train Bleu, to a winner-take-all gamble in Monte Carlo, Penny and Jeremy are off on another romp...while the clock is ticking down until they say, "I do."

Author: C. a. Belmond
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 02/02/2010
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.32w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9780451229083

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/09/2009 pg. 29
Romantic Times 02/01/2010 pg. 55 - Very Good

About the Author
C. A. Belmond was awarded an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship and was twice a Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award finalist. A writer in residence at the Károlyi Foundation in the south of France, her original screenplays were shortlisted at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Belmond has written and produced television dramas and documentaries, and taught writing at New York University.