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“Fraught with danger, filled with mystery, and meticulously researched, The Lost Ladies of Paris is a remarkable tale of the concealed females who helped to get the battle.” -Lisa Wingate, NY Times bestselling writer of Before We Were Yours

“Pam Jenoff’s meticulous study and gorgeous historical world-building lift her books to must-buy position. An intriguing secret and a captivating heroine make The Lost Women of Paris a about The Lost Girls of Paris read to take pleasure from!” -Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network

From the author from the runaway bestseller The Orphan’s Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three ladies and a band of female secret agents during World War II.

1946, Manhattan

One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her behalf way to work, Elegance Healey finds an forgotten suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Struggling to resist her own curiosity, Grace starts the suitcase, where she discovers twelve photographs-each of a different female. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the train station.

Grace quickly learns that this suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of the network of female secret agents who had been deployed out of London through the battle. Twelve of these women were delivered to Occupied European countries as couriers and radio operators to assist the resistance, however they under no circumstances returned home, their fates a secret. Setting out to understand the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace discovers herself attracted to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose daring mission overseas reveals an extraordinary story of friendship, valor and betrayal.

Vividly rendered and inspired simply by true events, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shines a light for the incredible heroics of the brave women of the war and weaves a mesmerizing tale of courage, sisterhood and the great strength of women to survive in the most difficult of circumstances.