He spies a young lady tied helplessly to a tree and goes to rescue her. Sebastian goes out to the property where the film crew is shooting a movie, only he doesn’t know that. The scene where Marie and Sebastian meet again is funny and painful (for him). Of course Sebastian is unaware that Marie is with them, too. He actually does have a chance meet with Marie’s producer but he is unaware that he has rented his property to him and their film crew. After witnessing Marie’s fight with her father, Sebastian goes looking for her but doesn’t find her.

Marie along with her producer and his two models, Sally and Dot, take up residence in one of Sebastian’s ancestral homes in Normandy. So off she goes to find financial support elsewhere.įind it she does with her producer and mentor, Russell-Smith, who’s a charlatan way past his prime. He also finds her flighty and without direction and refuses to invest in her career.

Marie has always rebelled against her father as she finds that he always tries to control her life and always expecting her to fail. Georges du Guard refuses to give his daughter money because he finds her dreams unrealistic. She is there to ask her father for money to complete her film. It is Sebastian who greets Marie after she arrives in Paris. Her success is stymied by her lack of finances. Marie Du Guard is looking to make a career in moving pictures. In fact, if you haven’t read Bliss then this review is in a way a spoiler for you. To elaborate more will go into spoiler territory. He wasn’t exactly in control when he first meets Marie Du Guard in Bliss. A connoisseur of art, history and poetry. As a lawyer, Sebastian has friends of influence from all over the world. It is when he loses that control that makes him so desirable and sexy and he does just that in Dance. In Bliss, Sebastian was meticulous, cool, precise, stiff-necked and likes to be in control. In Dance the story is continued and seems to encompass a vast array of subplots that made this book great but at it’s heart, it is about a daughter’s love for her father and gaining his acceptance. It is the sequel to Bliss which featured Sebastian’s brother, Nardi de Saint Vallier.

I really enjoyed Dance by Judith Ivory aka Judy Cuevas. And each step drew them closer to the greatest sacrifice one heart can make for another… Theirs was a dance of denial and attraction. A man and a woman drawn together by fate… but haunted by the brief moment of passion they shared in the past. The emotionally powerful story of two people in turn-of-the-century Paris. the man, reaching out to rekindle the flame, desires her all the more… The woman, reaching for a dream, pulls away from her lover’s arms, still longing for his touch…. Dance by Judy Cuevas was written in 1996 and is about:

Bliss by Judy Cuevas