Sam Taylor

Everyone, at some point in their lives, wants to be someone else. Eric Kherson—40, divorced, distracted—is spiraling. He has devoted his life to a successful career as the marketing director of a...

Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman’s...

Obsessed with art, and with living, Charlotte attended school in Germany until it was too dangerous to remain, fled to France, and was interned in a bleak work camp from which she narrowly escaped....