Diane Johnson

Lulu arrives in Marrakech, hoping to rekindle her romance with Ian. It's the perfect cover for her assignment with the CIA. But beneath the surface of this polite expatriate community lies a more sinister world laced with double standards and double agents.

When a couple takes a job as hotel caretakers for the winter, their young son's psychic powers bring out the evil in the old hotel.

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Le Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the "wispy but material" family ghosts who shape us. Growing up in the small river town of Moline, Illinois, Diane Johnson always dreamed of floating down the Mississippi and off to see the world. Years later, at home in France, a French friend teases her: 'Indifference to history--that's why you Americans seem so naive and don't really know where...

When Amy Hawkins, a young dot-com executive from California who has made her fortune at the top of the NASDAQ, overhears a pair of elderly - and thus much wiser - socialities decry the new generation for their incompetence in all things worldly, she sets off for Europe to find culture, her roots, and maybe a cause to devote her considerable fortune to. Amy strats her quest at one of the finest small hotels in the French Alps - a hotel noted for skiing...

Isabel Walker travels to Paris to visit her pregnant stepsister Roxy, by chance arriving on the same day that Roxy's husband Charles-Henri leaves the marriage, apparently for another woman. As Isabel stays to offer help and support, the two young women start living it up with the locals and American expatriates, and Isabel finds herself being wooed by an older French man- who happens to be related to Roxy's ex-husband.