These two women are hundreds of miles apart, occupying two very different worlds. Her arrival sets a chain of events in motion which lead to Hélène becoming Elaine Rousseau, a freedom fighter who mans a printing press for the members of the Resistance. Then a strange woman shows up at her doorstep, looking for a man named Pierre. But the longer Joseph is gone the more Hélène worries. When he fails to come home that first night after their argument, she assumes he stayed at his friend Etienne’s apartment to give them both time to let their anger cool. Hélène wants to join the resistance and fight for freedom Joseph, a pacifist due to his experiences in WWI, wants her to stay calm and carry on. Hélène Bélanger’s fight with her beloved Joseph had been laden with vitriol, a by-product of the stress induced by the occupation of France. Meanwhile in Lyon, a woman frantically searches for her husband. In spite of her fear of flying, she boards a plane within a week, determined to do her part to bring American soldiers home – especially her beloved brother. She will be microfilming periodicals that land in that metropolis from all over Europe, as well as checking the bookstores for any information regarding the Axis forces that can be obtained from volumes sold by the myriad of refugees that pour into the city on a daily basis. She loves her job and can’t ever imagine leaving it, but then she receives an unusual offer from the OSS: A chance to make a significant difference in the war by using her fluency in German and French in Lisbon. is a city of frantic energy, with all its denizens caught up in the battle to defeat Hitler – with the exception of Ava Harper who works in the sedate Rare Book Room at the Library of Congress. War encompasses the world and Washington D.C. Fabulous books are hard to find, books that make you wish to spend more time with the characters and who make you long to find more stories that can do that.
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