Includes a sneak peek of Kristin Harmel's incredible new novel The Paris daughter.
Summary:
At thirty-six, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her, and her bank account is nearly depleted. Her own dreams of becoming a lawyer long gone, shes running a failing family bakery on Cape Cod and raising a troubled preteen. Now, Hopes beloved French-born grandmother Mamie is drifting away in a haze of Alzheimers. But in a rare moment of clarity, Mamie realizes that unless she tells Hope about the past, the secrets she has held on to for so many years will soon be lost forever. Tantalizingly, she reveals mysterious snippets of a tragic history in WWII Paris. Armed with a scrawled list of names, Hope heads to France to uncover a seventy-year-old mystery.
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