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All the ways we said goodbye, a novel of the Ritz Paris, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White

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All the ways we said goodbye

Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White

a novel of the Ritz Paris

France, 1914: As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the young officer first met during Aurelie's debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting loyalties, Aurelie and Max's friendship soon deepens into love, but betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz, with unexpected consequences. France, 1942: Raised by her free-spirited American grandmother in the Hotel Ritz, Daisy Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother's Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for an English forger known only as Legrand, who creates identity papers for Resistance members. But as Daisy is drawn deeper into Legrand's underground network, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the country - and the man - she holds dear, she uncovers a devastating secret, one that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal, and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her own family history. France, 1964: For Babs Langford, her husband, Kit, was the love of her life. Yet their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as La Fleur. On Kit's death, American lawyer Andrew Bowdoin appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter turned traitor known as "La Fleur," the investigation has led to Kit Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic La Fleur, Babs joins Drew in his search, a journey of discovery that that takes them to Paris and the Ritz - and to unexpected places of the heart

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