Flappers & Fiction

Amid the freezing mud of the Russo-Turkish War, a hardened correspondent befriends Maxime, a golden-haired romantic with a heavy heart. On the eve of battle, Maxime extracts a solemn vow; return his locket to his betrothed in France should he fall. But when the narrator arrives in the quiet streets of Douai to fulfill this sacred trust, he discovers a web of treachery that has replaced a lover with a liar. Now he faces a brutal choice; honor the dead by destroying a woman’s peace, or bury the truth forever.