Anna Trent, an unwilling victim of an accident at a chocolate factory, loses her job. Thanks to a chance meeting with her former French school teacher, she heads to Paris, where she meets the brilliant chocolatier Thierry Girard. After a backwater English town where Anna spent her entire life, Paris overwhelms and frightens her—everything she learned at the factory now has to be forgotten. In Thierry’s shop, chocolate isn’t produced industrially; here, making it is a high art. But gradually Anna finds herself drawn to the irresistible charm of the French capital. And every morning, the moment dawn breaks over Pont-Neuf and the green alleys come alive, she’s already at the shop, making the gentlest, most exquisite, and most expensive chocolate—over which Parisian grand ladies go mad.