"When he first heard her, he knew. She was his bestseller." Before there were great stories, there were only words. Luke's were smart and eloquent but hollow. It was nothing like Emma's story, bleak and awkward, but honest to a fault. This is a coming-of-age journey of a writing prodigy in search of a story, his story, and a doe-eyed, homeless storyteller stifled by secrets, her secrets .

Dorothy Claes buried her husband three years ago. Yesterday, she buried her father. After inheriting her father's antique shop, Dorothy begrudgingly accepts the boring life she never wanted. From traveling the world to dusting Victorian vases. From proving she's still got the hang of jui jitsu at 65 to taking inventory on silver plated spoons. It was not the life she had envisioned. But when her father reveals a secret about himself from across the grave, a secret he wishes Dorothy to carry on, the 65-year-old retired museum curator finds herself traveling the world once more, her faithful cat, Solomon, in tow, to uncover a mystery in Paris, and a secret her father hid from her for over half a century.