The Widow of Rue Cendrée
Élise Vasseur, a widow of forty, has lit a candle in her window every night for ten years. When the new tenant across the street, Anton Moreau, turns out to be the mirror image of her dead husband, Élise is dragged into a web of lies that began the night of the fire that killed him.
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Characters
Anton Moreau
antagonist
The new tenant across the street, a soft-spoken antiques dealer with a scar on his left hand. His face is the mirror image of Élise's dead husband Marc.
Élise Vasseur
protagonist
A forty-year-old Parisian widow and lace restorer, living in a small apartment on Rue Cendrée. Grieving, careful, observant.
Madame Renard
supporting
Élise's elderly neighbor and only close friend, a former seamstress who saw everything that happened on Rue Cendrée ten years ago — including a man slipping out of the fire untouched.
Marc Vasseur
supporting
Élise's husband, declared dead in an apartment fire ten years ago. A former accountant who ran with dangerous money during the last years of his life.
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