City of Light by Daniel Almand
By Daniel Almand
Sylvia Trocadero, a junior-level company attorney, is a emerging celebrity at Taylor & Hitch funding options. She is a skilled, clever younger girl with fantastic debating abilities, an excellent educational heritage, and an uncanny instinct. luck in either her occupation and private existence turns out nearby until eventually her bosses supply her an strange task.
She is tasked with getting a bestselling novelist to signal a multi-million buck, ten-year agreement. She meets the guy in Paris, made up our minds to be successful and obtain the tremendous bonus and advertising she has been provided as a gift. however the client's stubbornness and his contempt for her try out not just her specialist acumen yet her very soul. She reluctantly follows the fellow everywhere in the urban, combating him over his refusal to signal the agreement. yet within the technique, whatever occurs that turns Sylvia's international upside down.
Both the writer's phrases and the weird locations they stopover at, together with an excellent discovery underneath the streets of Paris, resurrect an extended misplaced dream in her center and a bad tragedy from her prior. by means of the top of the negotiations, Sylvia is confronted with a daunting selection and needs to make certain no matter if her precise wishes are worthy wasting every thing she’s accomplished...
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