The Paris Assignment

Author : Rhys Bowen

Genre : Historical Fiction

Madeleine Grant has moved to Paris for a term. She is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France.

Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is safe. After a devastating twist of fate, Madeleine accepts a request from the ministry to aid in the war effort. The book ends with a surprising twist.