1907: Age of Hope and Wings Paris, 1907.
The city stands at the threshold of a new century intoxicated by progress. Industry surges forward, fortunes are forged in steel and speculation, and fragile flying machines begin their hesitant ascent into skies that promise glory, innovation, and unimaginable wealth.
Henri Valette is one of the brightest figures of this daring age - an engineer of rare brilliance and an aviator whose machines captivate investors and crowds alike. His work represents not merely invention, but the future itself.
Until a violent accident shatters both wood and certainty.
What appears at first as the inevitable consequence of early aviation's fragility soon unsettles those who understand that failure, like fortune, follows patterns. A fractured strut. A compromised control. A sequence that refuses the comfort of coincidence.
Inspector Julien Vasseur, methodical and perceptive, is drawn into a world where ambition eclipses caution and where innovation, commerce, and rivalry converge with dangerous intensity. Alongside the incisive and analytically formidable Renée Vasseur, the investigation unfolds amid Parisian ministries, industrial salons, and the restless landscapes of an era determined to defy gravity.
But in an age defined by ascent,
consequence remains inevitable.
