Langston Desrosier
The Musician
Full Name
Langston Desrosier
Physical Description
Louisiana Creole, mid-30s to early 40s
Piercing lavender eyes — the most distinctive physical detail in the novel
Tall, warm presence — heat at your side before you see him
A smile that could melt a polar ice cap
Every movement a jazz solo — unhurried, improvised, inevitable
Who He Is
Langston is New Orleans made physical — warm, intoxicating, beautiful, and impossible to keep. He presents as a man entirely without urgency and is quietly in love with a woman who has already left. His ease is real and is also the precise reason she cannot keep him: she needs something to push against, and he offers only invitation. He was always going to let her go. He understood that holding on required something of him too.
His Connection
Langston is Ryan's New Orleans — the catalyst, the door that stays open, the most romantic figure who does not get the girl. He is the man she stayed three weeks longer for without admitting why.
Appears In
Book 1: Anatomy of Release
"I couldn't. Because if I see your eyes, if I hear your voice again, I'll stay."