31 SAVANNAH PRESENT I’d been here before. Standing behind a cinema screen with the biggest project of my life. The last time, I’d been all nerves. Something had been missing from the film, but I hadn’t had enough experience to know what it was at the time. I had given up on that dream for so long and washed my hands of that day. Now, I was here again. The nerves were still there, but certainly not the same ones. Montgomery House was perfect. Or as perfect as I could get it. If no one else liked it, then I’d done my very best, and I knew it for the masterpiece it was. I was confident in the movie and what Maddox and I had accomplished together. Because this was as much his triumph as it was mine. I was certain that I never could have done what I’d done with him. Together, we were a fo

