The Quest

“There’s calamity—or something—in the air,” Ste. Marie tells Hartley as they cross a Paris bridge at dusk. His friend has a different prediction: that Ste. Marie is about to fall in love.

After six months away, Ste. Marie is back among Paris’s damp streets, evening blossoms and river boats, bound for a dinner where he is to meet Helen Benham. Charming, teasing and unexpectedly troubled, he can’t decide whether the chill he feels is a warning or merely the promise of romance. But Helen’s beauty is not the only thing drawing him toward her: her brother Arthur is missing, and the mystery hangs over the family. As love and unease gather in the Paris dusk, what is it Ste. Marie senses in the air?

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