Random Design

"Some wander into our lives like fate. Others arrive like questions we thought were already answered."

This truth unfolds when a single random moment binds seven strangers into a life-altering chain of events.

Set in the Old City in 1947, the story follows Smithy—an emotionally adrift writer—who witnesses this incident in the harbor town of La Vie en Rose and is pulled into the gravity of their orbit:

Mary — a luminous woman whose quiet grace hypnotizes all in her circle; a soul who change...