Cimino, author of the Amazon best-selling novel Paris, Rue des Martyrs These are questions I wanted to explore in Ella’s journey…and they are questions I ponder for my own life as well.'With extraordinary finesse, Juliette Sobanet writes a courageous story of the heart and a beautiful love letter to Paris.' - Adria J. In doing so, could Ella bring more joy to her grandmother’s life, and in the process, to her own as well? What if you could alter just one event that went horribly wrong the first time around? How could that change the future? Ella’s Parisian grandmother has one dying wish-for Ella to travel back in time and rewrite one tragic event from her past. In my time travel books, I love playing with the notion of going back in time to change the past. Of course there would need to be a love story, too, which is where Leo, the handsome American writer, comes in.Įlla’s mission for traveling back in time is more serious, though, than just dancing around the city and falling in love. I would want to dance in a jazz club, go to the Opéra Garnier-my favorite place in Paris-and see la Tour Eiffel at night. When I was crafting Ella’s time travel journey back to 1920s Paris, I thought about what I would want to do if I had just one night to explore that time period in my favorite city. Ella’s life has fallen far from her beautiful childhood summers spent in Paris with her grandmother, and if she doesn’t want to end up jaded and cold like her boyfriend, she has to go back. I decided that Ella would be living squarely in the Manhattan rat race as a corporate attorney, with her domineering attorney boyfriend who is focused mainly on money and status. This is exactly what my leading lady Ella needs in One Night in Paris. What a fun era to explore!Ī common feeling for me when I leave the US and arrive in France is that feeling of exiting the rat race and arriving in a place of beauty, where I can breathe a little deeper and take the time to experience life in a more joyful way. So far, my characters had traveled back in time to 1950s Paris and to 1930s Paris, so now, it was time to go a little further back into the 1920s. By the time I wrote One Night in Paris, I had already written my first two time travel romances Dancing with Paris and Midnight Train to Paris, and I knew that I loved writing in this genre.

Meet Me in Paris by Juliette Sobanet