A twelve day travel advisory traps them in one apartment. A forty eight hour deadline threatens the one thing Julian has never told her about. Maya Heyes and Julian Vance built a fragile, undefined thing after the chalet, the kind neither of them has named out loud. Then Verre Films, the small Geneva outfit Julian has been quietly building something with, gets swallowed by the same studio system that once cost Maya everything. A contamination advisory locks the Rhône corridor overnight, stranding them together in Julian's cramped Basel apartment with nowhere to be but honest. She built her whole career keeping secrets safe. He is the one she cannot file away, and the twelve days that follow ask both of them to stop managing each other and start choosing each other, on purpose, with no emergency left to hide behind. Direct continuation of Book One. Read in order.