title: The Frenchman
author: Reaves, Keisha
description: In the follow-up to London Bloke, all seems well for Bailey Shaw career wise. She has a book deal on the table, speaking engagements across the country, and a schedule so busy she has to hire an assistant. She’s even finally able to move out of that small 600 square foot flat of hers and into a family-sized brownstone in Mayfair. Everything she’s ever wished for herself is at the tip of her finger tips, but after Evan leaves England to accept a new job position in Dubai, Bailey is left alone. Even her friends, Gloria and Cate are too caught up in their own relationship drama, to be real supports for her at this time which all leave Bailey feeling left behind, lonely and hopeless about love. Until one day while strolling the rainy streets of London, she runs into an old childhood friend, Blake Morel, who’s in town from Paris for his art show opening. With new male company, Bailey begins a journey of casual encounters, heart ache, and self discovery. The Frenchman explores the concept of friends with benefits and the realistic functioning of the ideology. Can two friends have sex without rules or emotions getting involved? Can a woman put aside all of her values and her self-worth in hopes of finding love again? In this humorous tale of love lost and found, readers are able to explore how this woman overanalyzes, applies emotions, and sometimes lies to herself in the effort to escape single-hood and in the hopes for love.