Roughly a month after turning 33, Mei suddenly receives an email from an unknown person. The anonymous person turns out to be Mei's widowed mother, whom Mei hadn't spoken to in 18 years. Mei' mother asks her to live in Paris with her and Mei accepts.
Unfortunately, living in Paris wasn't as adventurous and fun as Mei had imagined. She faced a lot of discrimination, earned very little money and her mother continued to be her selfish self, treating Mei as a menace, as if it wasn't her asking Mei to live with her in France.
Mei is stucked between wanting to return and the fear of hurting her mother if she did and that would only result in Mei feeling guilty. Just like how she felt guilty, when her mother left her, 18 years ago.
In the middle of the nerve-racking circle that Mei is stuck in, she suddenly came across the strangest person. A man around Mei's age, dressed up in a rococo costume with beautiful, brown curls, suddenly claims to be not just any French king, but Louis XIV (George Blagden) himself. Louis XIV also known as the Sun King and Louis the Great was a French king who reigned from 1643 to 1715, who built the alluring Versailles palace and also a symbol of absolutism, suddenly finds himself in present day France. Now, Mei has to help him return back.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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