Victoria's Got a Secret

Book excerpt: Raised in a family of artists and intellectuals, the young Victoria-to-be was a bookworm who excelled in schoolas well as in the tutorials of her exotic grandmother who felt she should know how to hold court in a salon. The young Victoria's real education, however, was a lesson in love, shared with a down-on-his-luck high school classmate named Paul who gave his heart, body, and soul to heronly to be devastated when her dreams and ambitions propelled her from a small Canadian town into the bright lights of big cities, where she climbed the corporate ladder and fell under the influence of an older, powerful man--But when fate brings Paul back into her life, will he recognize the girl she once was? Will she? Can this handsome athlete with a musical gift make her heart sing as if she were an innocent teen once more? And if she breaks all the rules in this double life she's leading, can Victoria keep the profession she's come to love without sacrificing the storybook ending she longs for?