Running from the Puppet Master by D-L Nelson

This was a quick read full of suspense. Leah Stockbridge is a square peg in a round hole. Her family is very New England conservative. She is an artist. Her art teacher is encouraging her to go to art school. Her parents will have nothing to do with it - and they will not pay for it. Leah gets a job and saves her money. She gets accepted into art school and sneaks into Boston to rent an apartment. The day her parents think she is going off to a 'real' school, she announces what she has done. Things go well for a while - artistic success, love - the usual. Then tragedy strikes (doesn't it always??). Leah moves to Paris where she meets Jean-Luc, a smooth Swiss rich guy. Her life is filled with lots of material things, but nothing that fulfills her artist's soul. She ends up on the run - I won't tell you why. It was a good book.