From the bestselling author of The Light After the War comes the unforgettable story of a young woman waging her own war against the Nazis as a spy for the Resistance on the French Riviera.
Paris, 1943: Lana Antanova is rushing to tell her husband she is pregnant when she witnesses him being executed by a Gestapo officer for hiding a Jewish girl in a piano. Overcome with grief, Lana loses the baby.
A few months later, a heartbroken Lana is approached to join the Resistance on the French Riviera. As the daughter of a Russian countess, Lana has the perfect background to infiltrate the iacute;migreacute; community of Russian aristocrats who socialise with Nazi officers, including the man who killed her husband.
Lanansquo;s cover story makes her the mistress of a wealthy Swiss playboy, the darkly handsome and charismatic Guy Pascal, and her base his villa in Cap Ferrat. Together they make a ruthlessly effective team. Consumed by her mission, Lana doesnssquo;t count on becoming attached to a young Jewish girl or falling helplessly in love with Guy.
As the Nazis close in, Lanansquo;s desire to protect the ones she loves threatens to put them all at risk.
