The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The
Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that
moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years
of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge
at Paris' legendary Ritz hotel. The heiress . . . The Resistance
fighter . . . The widow . . . Three women whose fates are joined by
one splendid hotel France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes
trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte
Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's
ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers
she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von
Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer first met during
Aurelie's debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting
loyalties, Aurelie and Max's friendship soon deepens into love, but
betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and
the Ritz- the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with
unexpected consequences. France, 1942. Raised by her indomitable,
free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz,
Marguerite "Daisy" Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and
husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. At
first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her
grandmother's Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier
for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand, who creates
identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. But as
Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand's underground network,
committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake
of the country-and the man-she holds dear, she uncovers a
devastating secret . . . one that will force her to commit the
ultimate betrayal, and to confront at last the shocking
circumstances of her own family history. France, 1964. For Barbara
"Babs" Langford, her husband, Kit, was the love of her life. Yet
their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as La
Fleur. On Kit's death, American lawyer Andrew "Drew" Bowdoin
appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter turned
traitor known as "La Fleur," the investigation has led to Kit
Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic La Fleur, Babs
joins Drew in his search, a journey of discovery that that takes
them to Paris and the Ritz-and to unexpected places of the heart. .
. .
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