Léonie Martin arrives at Atelier Beaumont et Fils, a boutique interior design firm on Paris's Île Saint-Louis, as the newest junior designer, armed with a sharp eye, a small succulent named Pierre, and the particular patience of someone who knows what she wants and understands that wanting it doesn't make it arrive faster.
Her team lead is Reine Beaumont: precise, exacting, and entirely ungiven to warmth. She communicates in deadlines, drinks her coffee black, and has never once smiled before ten in the morning. She is also, quietly and inconveniently, the most compelling person Léonie has ever worked beside.
What begins as wrong coffee and a stuck drawer in a narrow archive room slowly becomes something neither of them has the right vocabulary for, late nights over blueprints, tea delivered to doorways, eleven glances counted across a studio table, and a distance that gets harder and harder to maintain.
Between Shifts; is a slow building girl love romance set against the warm stone and grey mornings of Paris. It is the story of a woman who finds beauty everywhere learning that the hardest kind to receive is standing right in front of her, and of a woman who builds rooms that make people want to stay, finally learning how to stay herself.
" Lighthearted on the surface. On fire underneath "
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