In the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter, where shadows linger longer than the light, stands Le Chat Gris-a café steeped in whispers, secrets, and the scent of chicory coffee. For generations, the De Montrichard family has guarded its walls, and with them, the mysteries that haunt its rafters. Jasmine De Montrichard, heir to her grandmother's legacy, has made the café her whole world. But when night after night a stranger arrives-elegant, unsettling, and impossibly timeless-her carefully kept life begins to unravel. Julien, with eyes that see too much and a presence that bends the air, seems bound to Le Chat Gris by forces older than memory. Then comes Anton Velikov, a man of authority and storm-gray eyes, whose arrival pulls Jasmine beyond the café and onto a voyage that will change her forever. Between ghostly whispers, a centuries-old bond of blood and stone, and a city thrumming with history and hunger, Jasmine finds herself caught between past and present, desire and danger. As shadows thicken and secrets rise from the bones of the Quarter, Jasmine must decide whether to cling to the safety of what she knows-or surrender to a love as perilous as it is eternal. Le Chat Gris is a sweeping tale of gothic romance and supernatural mystery, where every secret has teeth, and love itself may prove the most dangerous haunting of all.