An expanding investigation
An interrupted call and a card from Ambroise Ronceau take Ysée beyond the Maison des Bains. Physical traces resist the stories others want them to tell.
Romantic suspense · Book 2
La nuit à points cachés
Start here · Book 1 of 2Le bleu sous les serruresDiscover book 1 Her private life becomes a weapon in someone else’s hands.
Words she never wrote. A past invented for her. Ysée must untangle the evidence without letting others decide how she should live.
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When the evidence reaches into private life
Ambroise Ronceau calls Ysée. He has sent a card, holds traces that others want erased and refuses to say where he is. The conversation breaks off. When his letter arrives, the investigation spreads beyond the Maison des Bains.
In her working photographs, Ysée finds signs of a history carefully rewritten. Meanwhile, someone invents a past for her with Solal and words she has never written. The threat comes through her letterbox and uses her marriage to discredit what she is beginning to live.
Ysée wants to stop justifying herself. She also wants Solal to stay, without deciding on her behalf what would protect her. Yet danger awakens familiar ways of keeping silent, holding someone back and giving in to keep the peace.
They must untangle what has been done to the papers, the women and their memories, and refuse to let love become an admission of guilt.
The weight of false accounts
Photographs, letters and invented words bring the threat into Ysée’s home. Her marriage and relationship with Solal become tools for redirecting suspicion.
Love without taking control
Ysée wants Solal to stay without deciding what will protect her. Danger brings back old habits of silence, restraint and surrender.
The final movement of a story in two books
The mystery’s resolution is woven into the characters’ emotional changes. Documents must be separated from falsifications, just as care must be distinguished from control. This sequel carries forward the first book’s tensions and questions the right to choose a life when intimacy is turned into evidence.
BEFORE READING
Your questions.
When will the book be available?
This French-language book is coming soon. The release date and Amazon link will be added after publication.
Can I start with this volume?
It is best to begin with Le bleu sous les serrures. The investigation and Ysée’s relationship with Solal continue here; the two volumes form one story.
Is this an English edition?
This page is an English overview of the French book. No English translation or release date is announced here.
Keep exploring
Start with Le bleu sous les serrures. One continuous story, to read in order.
Other reading ideas: La part effacée, Les jours que je ne vous dois plus.