Guillaume Musso is the most-read author in France, known for a signature style that blends high-stakes suspense, romantic intrigue, and touches of the supernatural. Often described as the "king of page-turners," his work frequently explores themes of fate, second chances, and the power of the "instant présent" (living in the moment).

He didn't turn around. He knew that voice. It was the same one that had warned him ten years ago, on the night the car hit the embankment. The night everything should have ended, yet somehow, mysteriously, began again.

The rain lashed against the windows of the small Manhattan studio, blurring the neon lights of Broadway into a sea of fractured gold. Marc stared at the photograph in his hand—the only thing he had left of a life that no longer belonged to him.

"I don't want to change it," Marc replied, his voice barely audible over the thunder. "I just want to know if I'm still living it, or if this is just another trick of the light."

"You can’t change the past," a voice whispered from the doorway.