The Triflers

Monte Covington drifts through society on a perpetual circuit of clubs, ski slopes, tennis courts and grand Parisian soirées. Handsome, wealthy, and eternally unattached, he has made a sport of staying perpetually single while leaving a trail of fleeting admirers behind him. His reputation as the quintessential bachelor is as polished as his blue eyes and the crisp white of his summer shirts.

Yet after a decade of carefree wandering, Monte begins to sense a restless undercurrent that the endless travel cannot smooth away. A sudden loss of a trusted maître d’ and a lingering listlessness in Nice hint that his well‑kept routine is fraying. As old comforts vanish, he finds himself confronting questions of purpose, love, and the price of a life lived only for amusement.