Towering Flames

They finally stopped withholding the truth from each other. Now they must find out if that is enough.

Paris, 1926. Diana Grant has spent years defending the name she built for herself, in bylines, and now, after a fight she nearly lost, in the screen credit that finally puts Diana Grant on a movie poster. So when Teddy asks her, again, to marry him, on the deck of the ship carrying them both to France, she gives him the only honest answer a woman still guarding something this hard-won can give: someday. Not yet.

Paris hands them the life they always wanted, and they take it with both hands. A flat below Sacré-Cœur. Teddy’s play, sober and triumphant, on a real stage in a language he’s only beginning to love. A friendship with Colette, sharp-tongued, unbothered, asking nothing of Diana that the rest of the world hasn’t already claimed. And a Paris that seems built for two people who have finally run out of reasons to hold back from each other, in their shared home, with all the time in the world and nowhere else they’d rather be. A summer on the Côte d’Azur burns even hotter, the sun and the sea stripping away whatever restraint Paris left standing.

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