In 1980s Montreal, the secretive private members' club Midnight Maple Leaf serves as a portal for extraterrestrial contact. Twenty-seven-year-old heiress Lillian Harper, pearl necklace at her throat and dressed in bright resort-cut tailoring, is drawn into a tense triangle with thirty-six-year-old biotechnology negotiator Victor Lan and the alien emissary Zera while probing her father's suspicious death and the colossal life-insurance payout. Case-file fragments interweave with prose to expose club scandals, tests of desire, struggles for power, and the shifting boundaries of consent. The story folds in Quebec French-Canadian culture, the lingering chill of the Cold War, and a 1980s noir atmosphere, ending in a victory of revenge that exacts a steep price in humanity and human connection. An original supernatural dark romantic psychological thriller.
