Can a woman fall in love with a prostitute? Perhaps the question should be can a woman remain in a relationship and try to make it work with someone who sells her body? That’s the dilemma that faces the unnamed narrator of “Taxi to Paris”.

While there are some minor characters who make brief appearances, the story centers around the two protagonists; a nameless project manager and an equally nameless high-end call girl who caters exclusively to a well-heeled female clientele. The novel takes place in Berlin and is told entirely from the perspective of the project manager who meets a beautiful blonde (the woman of her dreams) at a lesbian club and accompanies her back to her apartment unbeknownst to her that she’s just a trick and her dream girl is expecting to be paid. Once at the apartment, both women realize each has misunderstood the situation but proceed to have hot sex anyway ….so hot it seems that the call girl decides not to charge the project manager.

The narrator has become completely infatuated and the story that ensues is a back and forth between the two women. When the prostitute is violently assaulted, the narrator takes her to an apartment the call girl owns in Paris. There each one begins to open up and learn more about one another as they both fall in love.

Upon their return to Berlin, the narrator has to decide if she can accept what her lover does for a living and the other one must decide if she can allow herself to love and let go of a harrowing past that made her what she is.

Author Ruth Gogoll tried to get this book published in her native Germany and was turned down by every lesbian publisher. Undeterred, Gogoll published it herself. Taxi to Paris has since gone on to become the best-selling lesbian book in Europe.

The book is not some great novel that stays with you. However, it is an entertaining read full of romance and steamy sex ….. several sex scenes! And while it presents an unusual story and characters, one can’t help getting hooked within the first few pages and wanting to know what happens to this couple. I, of course, won’t tell you that. You’ll just have to read it for yourself to find out.