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The Parisian Spy
Paperback
Series: The Resistance Girl, Book 3
RomanceGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9789083089232
Publisher: Hannah Byron Books
Published: Jul 20 2021
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A World War II historical fiction novel set in Nazi-occupied Paris, The Parisian Spy follows Océane Bell - daughter of WWI heroine Agnès de Saint-Aubin and her American colleague Alan Bell - as she is drawn from the safety of her medical studies into the deadly underground of French resistance.
Paris, 1942. Océane dreams only of healing. A French-American medical student at the Sorbonne, she divides her days between lectures and tending the wounded at Hôtel-Dieu, determined to save lives rather than risk her own. Her parents' wartime courage is a story she carries with pride but has never expected to repeat.
Everything shifts when she falls for Jean-Jacques Riveau, an artist turned resistance fighter whose passion pulls her toward a world she never meant to enter. When the Gestapo arrests him, love strips away every safe choice. To save him, Océane does the unthinkable: she walks into enemy headquarters, offering her medical skills to ruthless SS commander Dieter von Stein.
Now she must deceive the most dangerous men in Paris - with nothing but intelligence, nerve, and the quiet steel she inherited from her mother. Every day tightens the net. Every decision forces her closer to a line she cannot uncross.
A standalone novel within The Resistance Girl Series, The Parisian Spy blends women's historical fiction, resistance-driven suspense, forbidden love, and psychological tension against the realities of occupied Paris. Ideal for readers who love character-led WWII fiction where courage demands unbearable cost - and where a daughter must find her own kind of bravery, forged in her mother's shadow.
For fans of Kristin Hannah, Kate Quinn, and Pam Jenoff.
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