Colette has spent years assembling a life that works: friends she chose, routines she controls, calculated distance from everything that happened before. Then Paris requires her presence. She and her estranged sister Claire inherited an apartment. Restoration is required. Decisions about buying or selling, staying or leaving—all of it tied to a place and a person she left behind for reasons that made sense at the time.
The apartment doesn’t cooperate with staying separate from the past. It opens doors. Specifically, it opens the door to what Claire’s husband did years ago. What was never articulated. What lived in the space between them like an unspoken agreement to forget. Being in the apartment means confronting that silence, what it cost, what it meant that nothing was ever said.
In the present, there’s Lissa. She makes ignoring the now impossible. She’s immediate and tangible and she wants something from Colette that requires honesty Colette isn’t sure she’s capable of.
DeLisle’s sequel pushes further than the first book allowed. Colette is farther from shore. There’s no safety net of familiar geography or people she’s chosen carefully over years. There’s only Paris, Claire, Lissa, and the questions that get harder to avoid the longer she stays: who is she when the structures she built can’t protect her? What does she actually want when she can’t use distance as an answer? What becomes possible when you stop running?
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| ISBN: 9781948232098 |
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| Genre: Fiction |
| Subject(s): Fiction; Lesbian; Lgbtq+; Romance |
| Publication Date: 2018-05-15 |
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| Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 238 |
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| Book_ID: 106055 |