Heiress of the French Letters
A young woman, scarred by loss, risks uncovering her past and the family secret her grandmother kept for sixty years about love, betrayal, and murder in World War II France.
Baltimore 2001 – Done with running from loss, Emilie returns to her childhood home of Baltimore. The only tie to her ancestry is the memory of a bedtime story about Mont Saint-Michel—a mystical monastery spiraling up from the sea in her mother’s childhood village in France. When she finds an old letter of her grandmother’s, loose ends begin to weave together.
Nazi-occupied France 1943 – Farm life is nearly unbearable for Sabine. But threadbare clothes and stone-hard bread are the least of her concerns. The only life-giving moments are secretly couriering messages for the Resistance, but the perils are mounting. When her countrymen get recruited by Nazis to root out Resistance sympathizers, it brings danger to her doorstep. Sabine gets caught up in the unstoppable tumble of love, threats, betrayal, and a secret she’ll take to the grave.
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