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©2026
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"An emotional WW2 novel inspired by true stories of courage"--Page 1 of cover
"Paris, 1942. Every night, Léa Beaumont dances Swan Lake for an audience of German officers at the Palais Garnier. Every night, she descends the stairs--not to her dressing room, but to the cellars below, where she hides Jewish children sentenced to death. When a German officer named Hans begins to see through her mask, the line between hunter and protector blurs into something neither of them can afford to feel. Normandy, 1943. Marguerite was Léa's closest friend--two girls who fled Odessa as children, who grew up sharing a barre and a dream. When a shattered knee ended her dance career, Marguerite traded pointe shoes for a Sten gun and vanished into the French resistance. Now she returns to Paris with a British saboteur at her side and a mission that will demand everything she has left to give. Brooklyn, 1990. Charlotte always knew her grandmother had been a dancer. She never knew the rest. When she finds a locked drawer containing worn pointe shoes, a faded opera program, and a photograph of a German officer with an inscription she cannot read, she travels to Paris to meet the one woman who remembers--and the story she uncovers will change the meaning of every silence her grandmother ever kept"--Page 4 of cover