Romain Renard

After more than twenty-five years of absence, Paul Rivest returns to Melvile. He knows this little town pret­ty well, having spent all his summer vacations there as a child with his grandmother. Feeling responsible for the death of his first love and his best friend in a fire that destroyed the region the summer of his fifteenth birthday, his return to Melvile forces him to stir up the past. As Paul discovers the real reasons for Ruth and Thomas’s death, his stay in Melvile turns into a nightmare because the town of Melvile is not done with him.

In a world transformed by ETHERNA—a device that enables communication with the dead through their most cherished possessions—the Ethernel team tracks down and interrogates victims' "transitional objects" to solve crimes. David Novack, a detective haunted by his wife's unsolved murder, discovers during an investigation that her killer is still alive. While pursuing this new lead, his path crosses with that of Lara di Angeli, a mysterious Italian police officer who is herself searching for a priceless transitional object. Thus begins a hunt where every object unlocks a memory and every death reveals a truth; they are forced to confront their pasts and lay bare their deepest secrets.