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The Provence Affair: A Departure Lounge Romance Novel
Paperback
Series: The Departure Lounge, Book 4
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Audrey Herrick works out of one office in Cobble Hill. The sign says The Departure Lounge: people call her when their lives fall apart and she sends them somewhere beautiful to figure it out.
Every name in this one has been changed, because her lawyer was very clear. This one is about a client she is going to call Helen Carr.
She spent twenty years teaching a book about Provence. She had never once smelled lavender that was not a candle.
Helen has apologized her way through fifty-eight years, two of them as a widow, which everyone agrees she is doing beautifully. When Audrey asked what she wanted, the pause went on long enough that Audrey checked the call was connected. She had the answer. She was working out whether she was allowed to say it.
I want to know what lavender smells like.
Audrey sent her to a working harvest in the Luberon and called it charming. She was lying. The harvest starts at five and the winemaker would rather she went home. Jean-Luc Fabre has made wine for forty years and never named one; his wife did the naming. Nine barrels of his own wine sit in his cellar, the last one she never got to name, because he is the only person alive who could call it finished and he cannot make his hand do it.
What they have instead is the best conversation either has had in years: hers in grammar, his in fermentation.
Then the bank sets a date. Audrey is not telling you how it ends.
The Provence Affair is a witty, warm, second-chance romantic comedy, and the fourth standalone in The Departure Lounge series. Stay for the woman who finally says what she wants at full volume.
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