Shapiro, Barbara A.
In the summer of 1922
nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens is implicated in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiance
George Everard. Broke and disowned
she flees Belgium and creates a new identity - a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby. She sets out to recover her father's art collection
prove her innocence
and exact revenge on George. Offered the perfect job in Paris by American art collector Edwin Bradley
Vivienne is soon caught up in the world of post-Impressionists and expatriates. But complications ensue: George returns...and then Vivienne is arrested for Bradley's murder.--back cover.