{"id":641,"date":"2014-03-17T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/about-the-novel\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:49:06","slug":"about-the-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/17\/about-the-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;\">France, 1993.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;\">Gabriela Martinez has a problem to solve: she strongly suspects that her mentor and friend wants her as his mistress, her husband is increasingly neglecting her, and her latest illustration has been ruined. But while going to her favorite thinking spot in La Marbri\u00e9re, the mountain overlooking her home in the C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur, Gabriela makes a wrong turn and finds herself lost. There, in a clearing cocooned in emerald forest and towering cliffs, she finds a beautiful French coin, half-buried in dirt. Little does Gabriela realize the danger of that discovery, nor does she suspect the devastating consequences placing the coin on her favorite bracelet will have on her life.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;\">Richard Harrison, an American intelligence officer, is unwillingly assigned to protect Gabriela after the resurfacing of the coin. Together with Maurice N\u00f4ret, Harrison&#8217;s counterpart in French intelligence, Richard attempts to bring to light the madman&#8217;s identity. But as the psychological games to terrorize Gabriela into silence grow more lethal, Richard&#8217;s budding love for this beautiful, talented woman becomes a dangerous handicap to them both.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;\">Set in the exotic French Riviera, The Coin is a story of unfounded hatred, betrayal, love, and duty\u2014of terrible and painful choices that, nonetheless, bring about personal triumph.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France, 1993.Gabriela Martinez has a problem to solve: she strongly suspects that her mentor and friend wants her as his mistress, her husband is increasingly neglecting her, and her latest illustration has been ruined. But while going to her favorite thinking spot in La Marbri\u00e9re, the mountain overlooking her home in the C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur, Gabriela &#8230; <a title=\"About the Novel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/17\/about-the-novel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about About the Novel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-novel","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}