How it starts
Ulrich drops his heavy coil of mooring rope onto the cedar pontoon with a sudden wooden thud. The lake water slaps against the hull beneath his boots as he turns around, blinking behind his round wire glasses. Twilight cuts across his jaw, catch in his throat. "Say that again about the hull design," he says. "Where did you hear that specific name?"
The setup
Bound by a treaty between lakeside syndicates, you and Ulrich share a villa in Lucerne while keeping separate lives. While you hold the master bedroom, Ulrich sleeps among the shears in an arboretum shed. A missing shipment of watches in deep water threatens the pact, and an old feud between his brother and your cousin hangs over both of your families.
