Anne Consigny

The Returned have been hiding out for months in the Domaine, a zone rendered inaccessible by the flooding. They are still holding Julie, Victor, Camille and Claire, who have more or less got used to their life as refugees. But their everyday is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a new wave of Returnees. Among them, are Esteban and Audrey - two of Camille's classmates who also died in the bus crash - and Hélène, Victor's mother.

After the shoot-out in the gymnasium, the Séguret family attempt to flee the Town. But Camille has understood that she cannot stay with her loved ones and that she must go back to the Returned. The policeman, Alcide, has handed Simon and Adèle's baby over to Lucy, but it's too late: the Horde has dispersed and Lucy doubts that they can now return to where they came from. As for Victor, he now understands that the only way to save Julie's life is...

Life in town is becoming gradually more disturbing. Determined to come out of hiding, Camille invents a new identity, Lena is horrified by a mysterious physical affliction, and Julie finds herself paralyzed by fear as an old trauma resurfaces.

Adele attempts to come to terms with Simon's 'return' as things get emotionally complicated. Camille tries to restart her old life but discovers the situation at home has changed and is introduced to Pierre, an odd and charismatic figure who predicted The Return.

Tensions are high between the living and the dead, as a newer, creepier wave of the returned descends upon them. With the townspeople in fear and the stakes higher than ever, everyone will have to choose sides.

Since the return of Victor's mother, Julie feels out of place: she eventually decides to leave the Domaine. Camille grow close to Virgil, a mysterious young Returnee, which is not to her mother's liking. Adèle begins to get used to her baby - she has no doubt that Simon is watching them on the sly. As for Léna, she finally catches up with Serge, who has however been joined by a new Returnee, his father, Milan, an individual both charismatic and...

Jérme and Berg have joined forces to take their investigation further: they decide to visit the hamlet where Victor's family had been murdered. As promised, Serge leads Léna to the Domaine, where she is reunited with her mother and sister. But she also discovers that relations between Camille and Claire have taken a turn for the worse. Following the disappearance of her baby, Adèle comes under suspicion by the police. Julie sets out to finds Victor's...

Allegiances are forming, as the atmosphere in town grows increasingly hostile. Camille is accused of hurting people around her. Simon investigates the circumstances of his death and Julie wants to leave town, but has difficulty crossing the bridge over the dam.

Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.

The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.