Business is very good for Victor Marchand and his son, JP. Victor, who lives in France, is a “picker,” a buyer of traditional and authentic dismantled goods, while JP runs their import establishment, Les Beaux Châteaux, in Manhattan. Money means nothing to their rich clientele, which benefits both of them. But the death of Victor’s wife and JP’s mother, Frida, was a crushing blow. Never close, the father and son are drifting even further apart. JP feels a hollowness in his life. He takes a leave from the store and pours his energies into remodeling his mansion in the Hamptons. Then he flies to France to help his grieving father. On returning to New York, he finds that the office manager he trusted has absconded, emptied the safe, and wiped the computers clean. JP has to fight to start over, and father and son bond through the calamity. As they do, each get a shot at an enduring love: Victor with Caterina, a Russian expat, and JP with Veronique, a Frenchwoman, or Sharon Tracker, a brilliant Native American attorney. Along with their romantic entanglements, another story plays out as JP and Victor realize how much they need each other and enjoy spending time together. Will their new respect last, or will the men grow apart again? Screenwriter Marks creates truly rounded characters as she paints a memorable picture of the import business and the decline of small French towns, as when she writes: “French boulangeries used to be iconic and indubitable on the main street of every village in France. The buildings that housed them were often crafted to suit the needs of several generations, not only in the fortitude of the materials used—marble and mahogany, granite and walnut—but also in their classic, elegant proportion and simplicity….Today’s bakers either can’t make a living selling bread, or they won’t.” As readers root for JP and Victor to thrive, they’ll get a delicious taste of France.