Summary
A salt-stung novelist, Leonard Fayne, shackles his art to a gilded heiress; Isabel Grace’s opulence muffles every syllable he tries to breathe onto paper. When a chisel-wielding muse, Katherine Dare, nudges the bride toward Europe’s grand tour, the empty mansion becomes a cathedral of echoing coins. Left with carte-blanche to Isabel’s fortune, Leonard drowns not in champagne but in creative paralysis, until a half-blind street waif, Ella Klotz, teeters on the parapet of suicide beside him. Their mutual rescue—his rope swapped for her trembling hand—rekindles his prose; the typewriter clacks like gunfire in the studio dusk. Across the Atlantic, Isabel, courted by the velvet-gloved predator Heminway, awakens to the hollow ring of diamonds and books passage home, igniting a triangular collision of conscience, possession, and the perilous moment when love tries to rewrite its own first draft.
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Sailor and novelist Leonard Fayne marries wealthy Isabel Grace, whose riches hamper his creative faculties. On the suggestion of sculptress Katherine Dare, Isabel travels to Europe, leaving her husband permission to use her bank account. Leonard steadily declines in her absence and is on the verge of suicide when he meets Ella Klotz, a waif who is about to kill herself because she is going blind. He takes Ella to his studio to care for her, and believing he owes his life to the girl, Leonard once again begins to write. Meanwhile, Isabel is being pursued by an old suitor named Heminway, but realizes that she still loves her husband and returns from Europe. Heminway tries unsuccessfully to keep the couple apart.
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