The last time valerie was in paris, she was three years old, running from the nazis, away from the only home she had ever known. Now as a young woman all alone in the world, valerie must return to paris, to the bookshop and her sole surviving relative, her grandfather vincent, the only person who knows the truth about what happened to her parents. As she gets to know grumpy, taciturn vincent again, she hears a tragic story of nazi-occupied paris, a doomed love affair and a mother willing to sacrifice everything for her beloved daughter. Discover a plethora of topics such as

Early life in prussia

The vfr: meeting willy ley

Meeting hitler

The vengeance weapons

Operation paperclip: move to the us

A cold war and a space race

And much more! Grace visits her legacy––a bookshop on a cobbled lane filled with lost memories. She combs through handwritten letters, unearthing the story of her grandmother matilda. A woman whose one true love was locked within the barbed wire of dachau––a woman who never gave up hope... As grace pieces together her grandmother's heartbreaking past, she discovers a shocking betrayal that shattered her family beyond repair. When grace learns the long-buried secret of her own identity, will she ever be the same again?

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