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Chapter 10 When Taylor came home that night, he was a different person from the madman and brute who had left the apartment six hours before. He came home at two in the morning, stone cold sober. Felicity had crawled under the covers with all her clothes on and had cried herself to sleep. There … Read more

Chapter 9 Dominique told Bill all about it when he spent the night with her when she got back. He was still swamped at the office but happy to see her, and he laughed when she described the scene to him, walking in on them with Clément in his impeccable pajamas, serving her mother breakfast … Read more

Chapter 8 Dominique wasn’t sure why, but when they came back from Courchevel this time, she had a harder time adjusting to Bill going back to his “real” life, and no longer waking up next to him every day. For the first week she couldn’t sleep, for the second she had nightmares, except for the … Read more

Chapter 7 The computer Marie-Aurélie used to send simple emails to her daughter, grandchildren, and a few friends was a mystery to her. She made mistakes and erased things, sent them to the wrong people, usually hit the send button too soon, and didn’t know how to do research. But she tried various maneuvers that … Read more

Chapter 6 The suite Dominique and Bill got at the hotel in Courchevel was even nicer than the ones they had had before. It had a big living room with a beamed ceiling, oversized comfortable furniture, a huge fireplace, a beautiful view of the mountains, a bedroom with a canopied bed, and two luxurious marble … Read more

Chapter 5 Dominique was always sad to leave her mother when she left Paris. At eighty-five, even though in good health, Marie-Aurélie was at an age where anything could happen suddenly, and change her situation dramatically. For now, she was fine on her own. Her housekeeper came in every day, but she left at the … Read more

Chapter 4 Violet had a great time when she went home to Boston with Jamie. His family was loud, close, disorderly, chaotic, and loved to argue, tell stories, and laugh. They welcomed Violet like an old friend. They lived in Cambridge, and Jamie’s father was a Harvard professor and an avid baseball fan. His mother … Read more

Chapter 3 Violet looked shocked when Felicity told her she and Taylor were engaged and stared at her long and hard. “Are you serious?” It was the same thing Felicity had asked Taylor when he’d proposed to her. Something about it didn’t seem real, and Felicity was so quiet about it that Violet thought she … Read more

Chapter 2 Felicity always dressed with particular care when she was having dinner at the Whitfields’. Taylor’s mother, Elizabeth Whitfield, noticed every detail, and always made comments afterward to Taylor, and Felicity wanted to give her as little as possible to complain about. Taylor claimed his mother’s comments didn’t matter to him, but Felicity knew … Read more

Chapter 1 On a gray November day, Dominique Dupont sat looking out the window of her office on Fifty-Seventh Street, just west of Fifth Avenue, on the forty-fifth floor, with a splendid view of Manhattan. She was the founder and designer of Dupont Designs, now in its thirty-fourth year. She designed the most beautiful, most … Read more