Lucie has had a dream of being a top ballerina in the top Paris ballet for a long time until war closes in and she finds herself stepping up to take over the English bookshop for her Jewish friends as they evacuate Paris ahead of the Germans. I’m pretty sure I’ll reread the whole thing again when I get a paper copy.
What a delightful, high-suspense story! I read it all in one sitting, into the wee hours of the morning on a work night-tomorrow will be fun on 3.5 hours of sleep! Simply couldn’t put it down and couldn’t quit flipping pages.
Master of WWII-era fiction Sarah Sundin invites you onto the streets of occupied Paris to discover whether love or duty will prevail. And for Paul to win her trust would mean betraying his mission. 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. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product and hiding British airmen in his factory. 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. 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. 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.
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