The Hotel Beau-Rivage on the Quai du Mont-Blanc was the pinnacle of nineteenth-century European aristocratic grandeur. Empress Elisabeth of Austria had stayed within its gilded suites, and sovereign treaties had been negotiated in its private salons for over a hundred and fifty years. At precisely eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, an armored Mercedes motorcade carrying Julian and Ava pulled into the private lakeside portico. Julian wore a bespoke black tuxedo…
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