Robert Clifford has spent six months trying to forget Mary Regan. Then she walks back into the Grand Alcazar restaurant with a lawyer in tow, and every careful resolution dissolves in an instant. Set against the glittering, treacherous world of 1918 Broadway, this is a novel about the people who haunt us and the secrets we can't outrun. Mary carries history, associations with crime, circles of danger, a past that made her vanish without a word. Now she's back, and Robert must decide whether the woman he loved was ever real, or just another performance in a city built on them. The narrative pulses with urban tension and romantic dread, building toward revelations that reframe everything that came before. It's a story of desire and suspicion, of how completely someone can change a life and then return to demand you remember it.
