As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books.
Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army convinces him to keep his factory running and obtain military information from his German customers. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product and hiding British airmen in his factory. After they meet in the bookstore, Paul and Lucie are drawn to each other, but she rejects him when she discovers he sells to the Germans. And for Paul to win her trust would mean betraying his mission.
Master of WWII-era fiction Sarah Sundin invites you onto the streets of occupied Paris to discover whether love or duty will prevail.
My thoughts:
It’s always exciting
to read a book by Ms. Sundin because I know I am going to be completely engaged
in the story. This one did not
disappoint as I was quickly transported to a sad, historical time in history. I
loved getting to know Paul Aubrey, his precious four-year-old daughter and Lucie
Girard. I cannot imagine having the
bravery these characters had when faced with the challenges of occupied Paris
and their resistance.
There were several
times that I was fearful that they would be discovered and something horrible would
happen to them. It’s a very emotional read which I loved for a
change, it turned out to be a rather fast read for me simply because I couldn’t
wait to find out what would happen in the lives of characters that became very
dear to me.
Overall, I loved
everything about this novel and of course I still find the author to be a
masterful storyteller.
I received a copy
from the publisher through Netgalley. All opinions are my own.
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