title: Amour Provence: A Novel
author: Constance Leisure
description: "Gorgeously written and heartbreakingly beautiful, Constance Leisures eloquent Amour Provence is about love, loss, and the changes two small French villages and their inhabitants go through, from the Nazi occupation to today. This is a profound novel about the struggle to survive both history and buried secrets, and the yearning to keep ties to both the land and to each other. So mesmerizing." (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You)<br /><br />Constance Leisure expertly conjures up a village in Provence and its inhabitants  their secrets, faults, and graces  yet best still are her vivid descriptions of the platane trees, the cassoulet, the grapillage, the mistral and soleil that define Provence and tempt this reader to pick up sticks and move there demain. (Lily Tuck, author of The Double Life of Liliane)<br /><br />"Constance Leisure offers us a carefully woven narrative of contemporary life in the tiny wine villages of northern Provence. Her characters are sensitive, sad, but bold too, brought to life through their loves, hates, feuds, infidelities, and haunting regrets. The vineyards, olive groves, lavender fields, church steeples, and village cafes all play starring roles in a novel that richly reveals the daily rhythms of French village life." (Patricia Wells, author of The French Kitchen Cookbook and director of the cooking school At Home with Patricia Wells)<br /><br />Leisure strikes a smart balance between the private and the public, ruminating at length on the ways the two spheres bleed togethera fascinating exploration of rural dynamicsparticularly given the class, race, and cultural divisions in the story. (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>)<br /><br />"Beautiful and romantic." (<i>Booklist</i>)<br /><br />"Amour Provence begs to be read on a warm, sun-drenched patio scented with lavender, surrounded in soft cushions, with a glass of vendange tardive in easy reach...Leisure paints an inviting picture, small-town warts and all. Pour another glass of wine and enjoy." (<i>Historical Novels Review</i>)
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  **The Original Sinners return to _The Chateau_ in this sequel novella to
  Tiffany Reisz’s bestselling romantic suspense novel.**
  
  
  When Kingsley left Madame and her château of sexual wonders, he never expected
  to set foot within her looking-glass world of pleasure and pain again. He’d
  turned down Madame’s offer to serve at her feet—tempting as it was—and was
  thus forbidden from ever returning. Even if he wanted to go back, he didn't
  know its location.
  
  
  Over twenty years have now passed. Kingsley has built his own empire of
  pleasure and pain...but when his lover Søren tracks down the location of the
  unassuming château in the French countryside, he feels compelled to return.
  This time, however, he won’t be going into Madame's world alone...he’ll be
  bringing his own sadist along with him.
  
  
  _Previously published under the title “The Story of Ø” in the limited-edition,
  signed-and-numbered hardcover edition of_ The Chateau.
  
  
  **“A surprisingly engrossing erotic thril