Stories that stay with you.

Margot Lemaire has built a comfortable, independent life in Paris. At forty-six, she works as a translator, walks familiar streets and takes quiet pleasure in the rituals that make her life reassuringly predictable.

But one question begins to trouble her: if she disappeared, how long would it take before anyone noticed?

An impulsive experiment leads Margot to assume another identity: Camille Martin. But the name is not as arbitrary as she believes. As unsettling connections emerge, Margot is drawn into a search through altered records, fractured memories and long-buried family secrets—while her growing relationship with Gabriel Fournier raises questions of its own.

Moving between Paris and Montreal, The Second Name blends psychological mystery, romance, family secrets and dry humour in a story about what it means to be truly known.

Romy and Elliot's story began with a look. They were children when they first noticed each other across a schoolyard—yet they never spoke, never touched, and never knew what those lingering glances meant.

Then Elliot left, and life carried them in different directions.

More than thirty years later, fate brings them together again. Both have lived, loved and lost. Their reunion begins cautiously, but the connection that once existed only in childhood glances is still there—older now, deeper, and impossible to ignore.

As friendship gives way to something neither expected, Romy and Elliot must decide whether the past is something to hold onto—or whether it has been leading them toward each other all along.

Sometimes it takes thirty years to come home.