Paris Adrift

2018 | Fiction & Poetry

The Time Machine meets Midnight in Paris. Determined to escape her old life, misfit and student geologist Hallie packs up her life in England and heads to Paris. She falls in love with the eclectic expat community as a bartender at the notorious Millie's, located next to the Moulin Rouge. Here she meets Gabriella, a bartender who guides her through this strange nocturnal world, and begins to find a new family. But Millie's is not all that it seems: a bird warns Hallie to get her feathers in order, a mysterious woman shows up claiming to be a chronometrist, and Gabriela is unexpectedly unable to leave Paris. Then Hallie discovers a time portal located in the keg room. Over the next nine months, irate customers will be the least of her concerns, as she navigates time-faring through the city's turbulent past and future, falling in love, and coming to terms with her own precarious sense of self.

E. J. Swift (Author)