The Room on Rue Amelie

For fans of Kristin HannahΓÇÖs The Nightingale and Martha Hall KellyΓÇÖs Lilac Girls,this powerful novel of fateresistanceand familyΓÇöby the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet AgainΓÇötells the tale of an American womana British RAF pilotand a young Jewish teenager whose lives intersect in occupied Paris during the tumultuous days of World War II. When newlywed Ruby Henderson Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcelshe imagines strolling arm in arm along the grand boulevardsawash in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizonand as France falls to the Nazisher marriage begins to splintertoo. Charlotte Dacher is eleven when the Germans roll into the French capitaltheir sinister swastika flags snapping in the breeze. After the Jewish restrictions take effect and Jews are ordered to wear the yellow starCharlotte canΓÇÖt imagine things getting much worse. But then the mass deportations beginand her life is ripped forever apart. Thomas Clarke joins the British Royal Air Force to protect his countrybut when his beloved mother dies in a German bombing during the waning days of the Blitzhe wonders if heΓÇÖs really making a difference. Then he finds himself in Parisin the shadow of the Eiffel Towerand he discovers a new reason to keep fightingΓÇöand an unexpected road home. When fate brings them togetherRubyCharlotteand Thomas must summon the courage to defy the NazisΓÇöand to open their own broken heartsΓÇöas they fight to survive. Rich with historical drama and emotional depththis is an unforgettable story that will stay with you long after the final page is turned.