Grand Central/ Hachette May 2024
THE PARIS AFFAIR
A queer engineer working for Gustave Eiffel caught in a web of deceit that could destroy both him and the famous tower.
What they're saying about my books
Publishers Weekly
Marshall laces the novel’s first half with delightful characterizations and rich historical detail, then ratchets up the pace in the second, delivering a barrage of well-earned reveals. Francophiles, take note: this steamy slice of romantic suspense is très bien.
Emily Hourican, author of The Glorious Guinness Girls
In The Paris Affair, Maureen Marshall has created an evocative, intriguing story set in the historical shadow of the iconic Eiffel tower. In a world of aristocrats, dancers and the demi-monde, where reputation is everything and love is just another commodity to be bought and sold, Marshall tells the story of a young man's determination to build his own destiny, and in doing so protect the curious family of outcasts and misfits who gather around him.
Kelly Bowen, author of The Paris Apartment
Filled with mystery and danger, The Paris Affair is a seductive journey through the glamour and shadows of nineteenth-century Paris
Rose Sutherland, author of A Sweet Sting of Salt
Bold, intricate, and as deftly constructed as the contested tower at the center of its plot, The Paris Affair is a marvel. With a keen eye for both historical detail and the frailties of the human heart, Marshall builds the perfect balance of mystery and love story around a young man's quest to secure a future, delving into questions of longing, loss, and what it means to live one's truth; of what truly makes a family—and a home.
New York Times
4 Fun, Flirty New Romance Novels
Maureen Marshall’s THE PARIS AFFAIR (Grand Central, 416 pp., paperback,
$19.99) is... a tense romance between two queer men in Belle Époque
Paris. Finley Tighe is the illegitimate son of a British earl and an engineer at
Eiffel’s firm who’s trying to drum up wealthy investors for what all Paris thinks will
be a ruinous eyesore. Gilbert Duhais is a wealthy flirt and nephew to one of Paris’s
most successful businessmen — and just as obviously up to no good. Fin’s so
worried about protecting his ballerina cousin and his cabaret friends that he
forgets to protect his own wounded heart, and by the time he discovers the truth,
it’s almost too late.
This story goes from the back alleys of the Rive Gauche to the glittering
boulevards of Parisian society, but it all feels equally sinister . There are as many
monsters in the fashionable arrondissements as there are in the city’s most louche
nighttime haunts, and not everyone can escape.--OLIVIA WAITE, NYT Romance Reviewer
Praise for THE PARIS AFFAIR
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"Author Maureen Marshall goes back in time to the 1880s for an historical romance tinged with greed. Gay engineer Fin Tighe loves working for Gustave Eiffel on the man’s dream of a 300 foot tall tower. And he loves the relative freedom of nightlife in Paris. But trying to raise money for the project (and thus gain financial freedom for himself and his cousin) means trusting the handsome stranger who is wooing him, posing as the heir he is not and maybe seeing it all crash to the ground." Parade.com
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