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After tearing it open yet finding no letter inside, she still feels certain she understands the message, checking the door and seeking calm through familiar surroundings. The story then flashes back to Paris in 1995, when a green envelope with a New Jersey postmark arrived with no return address, linking past disappearance to an escalating chain of events.","PARIS, ADDRESS UNKNOWN  \nRachel Nacer  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue London, 2025  \nAn envelope is lurking in the post box, addressed to me in unfamiliar handwriting. The flowers on the circular stamps catch my eye, with their blood red petals and green veined leaves. Poinsettias, standing out against a white background, with USA marked around the edge. I squeeze the brown padded paper and feel something irregular inside, unidentifiable. The postmark is smudged and illegible, providing no further clues.  \nI run up the two flights of stairs to our apartment, kicking off my shoes as soon as I’m inside, and stare at the package. Someone has taken the trouble to write my name and address by hand, making it feel strangely intimate. Combined with the American stamps, it arouses the faintest stirring of unease. I tear open the envelope and tilt it against a small table, shaking until the contents slip out and lie there, intruders among the everyday muddle of papers, pens and keys. The sight makes me catch my breath and take a half-step backwards. Then, after a brief pause, I reach out and pick up the items, turning them over between my fingers. I return them to the table and look inside the envelope, expecting to find a letter, but there’s nothing. Not that anything else is needed. I know who has lobbed this grenade into my home and understand the message.  \nMy heart thumps as I stride to the front door and squint through the peephole. There’s no one there, of course, it’s not as though the envelope had been delivered by hand. Even so, it’s a relief to see the communal landing is silent and empty. But just in case, I take the door ’s safety chain and slide it into place. It’s a solid chain, securely attached, and won’t easily snap.  \nMy arms feel cold, the skin raised in goose bumps. I rub them to restore some warmth and return to the living room, walking over to the window and resting my eyes on the view. Terraced buildings, with a mixture of brick and white stucco facades, form a square. A typical London square, reassuringly unchanging, comforting in its familiarity. Black iron railings enclose a garden whose greenery soothes my eyes, offsetting the dazzle of the late summer sun.  \nI take a deep breath and glance at the items on the table. They take me back to another summer in a different city, many years ago. And another letter that sparked off an unpredictable chain of events. Looking back to that summer in Paris, I see how blithely ignorant I’d been of what lay in wait. On the morning the letter arrived, I would have been going about my usual routine, thinking about the day ahead, while the postman was loading the envelope into his yellow van. Tracing its journey to my post box in my mind, I picture it as lurking among the white and brown mass of communication, a hot and luminous red, almost radioactive. But in fact, it had been a pale, understated green and not even addressed to me.  \nNone of that could happen today, in this age of social media and instant communication, where people lay out the detail of their lives for everyone to see. But back then those technologies had not yet transformed our lives. Back then, people could simply disappear.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nParis 1995  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nChapter 1  \nOn the morning the letter arrived, I left the apartment later than Philippe, who was trying to impress his boss by being first in the office. I had an easy day ahead of me, with just one student, an engineer who needed to learn English so he could communicate with the Chinese. Thank God for the popularity of the English language, I thought, locking up and running down the six flights of stairs, for how else could I earn a living here?  \nReaching the courtyard on the ground floor, I checked our mailbox. At first there appeared to be only the usual collection of junk leaflets. 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