In the StoryThe Road That Doesn’t Exist
Seven strangers know a road no map shows. Nora Kerjean knows how to read the land, check a route, measure the cost of a detour. But the road she remembers escapes every survey. Other people know it too. For each of them, it leads toward something—or someone—missing from their present life.
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
Nora set her cup on the white margin, away from the contour lines. The evacuation plan covered the entire conference table: an A0 sheet printed too quickly, still warm in places, with county roads thickened in orange and forest tracks in pale gray. After running his fingers over it so often, Yannis had left a graphite mark near the Devèze ravine.Read the excerpt ↗