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Five Petals from Paris

A young Parisian family finds their world upended as the Nazi chokehold tightens over France, parted by war, hiding their heritage, and facing unthinkable choices to survive and reunite. Based on true events.

For Maÿlis and Romain Varnas, the ordinary strain of raising small children and long work weeks changes in a blink when the Nazis advance on Paris. While Romain fights a losing battle on the front lines, the City of Light goes dark for Maÿlis. She’s running out of options to keep her children safe from hunger, cold, and the snatchers who come for Jews in the night. The one choice remaining is unthinkable—to send them away. But once they scatter, will she ever see them again?

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Heiress of the French Letters

ByJulie Tinard

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.