Two men, two centuries, one name. In 1830, Mathias is a jaded novelist battling a laudanum addiction and an illicit attraction, in 2013 he's a lonely children's author writing fairytales. One will fall for a captivating creature of the sea, the other for a troubled man who seems not quite of this world; an illustrator whose pictures show far more than just the story. DenNor AU.

AU. What Arthur had expected on his trip of the vineyards of France was solitude, good wine, and a quiet end to his rather disastrous love life. What he had not expected was a hostel in Rome with a Frenchman, no wine and rainy start to a long summer.