The Great Confession (Adventure, #22)

In the sky between continents, where time dissolves between time zones and the soul seems suspended between worlds, there lived a woman who loved with one wing as a pilot and the other as a mother. Her name was Élodie Moreau, a name spoken with respect in aviation, but spoken with fear, longing or silent admiration in the lives of those she touched without ever remaining fully. She was an officer, a wife, a lover, a traveler. She was a puzzle of identities, carefully constructed, from risky pieces and fragments of hidden truths. In every country, in every love, she left a trace. Sometimes, the trace was a smile in a photograph, sometimes it was a child, a daughter born from a moment of passion and abandoned in the arms of a loving father. Seven daughters. Seven worlds. Seven continents of the heart. This story is not an ordinary one. Not It begins with a "once upon a time" and does not end with "they lived happily ever after". Rather, it is a diary written in silence, on the margins of aeronautical charts, in hidden calendars, in unsent letters and flights that never appeared in official records. It is a confession torn from a double, sometimes triple life, in which lying was the only form of protection. On the day she told her story, Élodie did not ask for forgiveness. She did not defend herself. She looked into the camera, recorded her voice and spoke the truth, raw, deep, human. For the first time, she wasn't the impeccable pilot, the iron woman, the loyal wife or the absent mother. It was her. A woman who lived defying the rules of gravity, not just of flight, but of the heart. This is the Great Confession. Not to judge. Not to excuse. But to understand how far a woman can fly when she's not allowed to land anywhere.