By Daniel Almand
Sylvia Trocadero, a junior-level company attorney, is a emerging celebrity at Taylor & Hitch funding options. She is a skilled, clever younger girl with impressive debating abilities, a super educational historical past, and an uncanny instinct. luck in either her occupation and private existence turns out within sight until eventually her bosses supply her an strange project.
She is tasked with getting a bestselling novelist to signal a multi-million buck, ten-year agreement. She meets the guy in Paris, made up our minds to be triumphant and obtain the outstanding bonus and promoting she has been provided as a gift. however the client's stubbornness and his contempt for her try out not just her expert acumen yet her very soul. She reluctantly follows the guy all around the urban, battling him over his refusal to signal the agreement. yet within the method, whatever occurs that turns Sylvia's global upside down.
Both the writer's phrases and the weird locations they stopover at, together with an brilliant discovery underneath the streets of Paris, resurrect a protracted misplaced dream in her middle and a bad tragedy from her earlier. through the top of the negotiations, Sylvia is confronted with a daunting selection and needs to confirm no matter if her precise wants are worthy wasting every little thing she’s accomplished...
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