Patricia Sands lives two hours north of Toronto, but her heart’s other home is the South of France. An avid traveler, she spends part of each year on the Cote d’Azur and in the countryside of Provence. Her award-winning 2010 debut novel, The Bridge Club, is a book club favorite. The Promise of Provence, which launched her three-part Love in Provence series was a finalist for a 2013 USA Best Book Award and a 2014 National Indie Excellence Award, an Amazon Hot New Release in April 2013, and a 2015 nominee for a #RBRT Golden Rose award in the category of romance.

Drawing Lessons, Sands’s fifth novel, also set in the south of France, was released by Lake Union Publishing in 2017 and was a Finalist in the Somerset Literary Book Award 2019. The Villa des Violettes 4-book miniseries released in 2019/23.

Her most recent novel, The Secrets We Hide, published August, 2022 and received the 2023 Book Excellence Award for Women’s Fiction; Winner – Women’s Literary Fiction – International Impact Book Awards, 20242; Finalist – Women’s Fiction – American Fiction Awards, 2024. In March, 2023, Lost At Sea, Book 8 in the nine-book Sail Away series was published. On January 1, 2025, A New Leash on Life, Book 9, in the Dragonfly Cove Dog Park series was released. In November, 2025, her 13^th novel, The French Effect, will be published.

A lifelong photographer, follow her on Instagram @psands.stories. Find out more at Patricia’s Facebook Author Page, Amazon Author Page or her website where there are links to her books, social media, and monthly newsletter that has special giveaways and sneak peeks. She would love to hear from you!