The Moldovan Cousin

By K. DRAVEN SMITH

Sofia Andreeva is twenty-six years old, a primary school teacher in Chișinău, and she has just learned that her grandmother had a different name.
The letter comes from a solicitor in Munich. It tells her that her grandmother quiet, precise, a woman who watched pigeons from a courtyard window and made a pastry no one has been able to replicate since she died was born Agathe Laurent, in the Banat, in 1931. And that there is a family in a Loire Valley village who has been assembling itself, piece by piece, without knowing she existed.
Sofia arrives at a studio door on a Thursday afternoon in April with a suitcase, a sealed envelope, and a grandmother's buried name.
The family receives her. The shelf above Mathilde's sink gets a ninth object. And Victor Bauer the man who found Sofia before the family could, the man who is now sixty-one and has just received a diagnosis he is not ready to discuss sends her, through his lawyer, the one thing he has decided he cannot keep.
The Moldovan Cousin is the fourth and final novel in the Loire Valley Series. It is Sofia's story. It is also the story of what it costs to accept an inheritance you did not ask for and what it means, finally, to stay.
For readers who have followed Vivienne and Mathilde from the beginning. And for those meeting the shelf for the first time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZ9WCMG9
• ISBN13: 9798195002909
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"