Passion on the Côte d'Azur

The crossing from the Carlton pontoon in Cannes to the secluded anchorage of the Baie des Canoubiers off Saint-Tropez was an exhilarating blur of salt spray, roaring twin turbines, and unspoken electric tension. Aboard the thirty-foot carbon-fiber tender, Camille sat huddled beside Lucian in the rear cockpit as the vessel skimmed across the ink-black waters of the Mediterranean at fifty knots. Lucian had wrapped his heavy shearling coat around her…