Originally published in the USA Today bestselling The Darkest Hour anthology, this gripping tale of resistance, suspense, and love is now a standalone book.
1940: Paris under Nazi occupation.
When the Germans invade France, twenty-one-year-old Nathalie Fontaine is living a quiet life in rural Southwest France. Within months, she heads for Paris and joins the Resistance as a courier helping to organize escape routes. But Paris is fraught with danger. When several escapes are foiled by the Gestapo, the network suspects they are compromised.
Nathalie suspects one person. But when a chance encounter with a stranger provides an opportunity to make a little extra money by working as a model for a Nazi-sympathizing couturier, her suspicions are thrown into doubt.
Using her work in the fashionable rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Nathalie uncovers information vital to the network, but at the same time steps into a world of treachery and betrayal which threatens to bring them all undone.
Time is running out, and the Gestapo is closing in.
Kathryn Gauci is a critically acclaimed international, bestselling, author who produces strong, colorful, characters and riveting storylines. She is the recipient of numerous major international awards for her works of historical fiction. She was born in Leicestershire, England, and studied textile design at Loughborough College of Art and later at Kidderminster College of Art and Design. She now lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier’s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Earphones Award. She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.