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Hollywood Balaton

Hollywood Balaton

Author(s): Claire Doyle

Location(s): Hungary, Lake Balaton

Genre(s): Romance

Era(s): Now

It used to be said that a single woman of a certain age is more likely to be killed by a terrorist than get married.

But when terror strikes, love strikes too.

Laura McLove—bored, single, 49—takes a Christmas shopping trip to Paris and falls into the arms of a handsome Hungarian, Max, who she meets during a December weekend turned violent.

Six months later, now engaged to be married, she arrives at Max’s family’s villa at Hungary’s Lake Balaton whilst he attends to his sick mother in Budapest.

Alone at Levendula—Lavender Villa—on the Hungarian Riviera, she encounters caretaker Mrs Szabó and stumbles on a real-life spy ring, a missing manuscript—and a mystery that leads all the way to Hollywood.

Levendula, once famous as an artists’ salon, had been under surveillance by the communist regime. What happened when the secret police came one night in 1972? And where is the missing manuscript?

In a world where everyone had been informing on everybody else, Laura attempts to uncover the truth—all the while fiancé Max is delayed, then delayed again in Budapest as their engagement begins to hang in the balance.

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