The Faded Bouquet

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The Faded Bouquet

Chapter One "Property of the State. Handle with Care." The ink on the manifest was still wet when Juliette Fournier read it, the smell of iron and damp plaster rising from the banquet hall floor. It was 1893, and the Saint-Malo Directorate was celebrating a promotion that had not yet been granted, a bureaucratic ghost haunting the chandeliers. Juliette stood near the service entrance, her...

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