About the author:
\nKristin Harmel is the \;New York Times \;bestse lling author of more than a dozen novels including \;The Forest of Vanishing Stars\, \;The Book of Lost Names\, \; The Room on Rue Amé\;lie\, and \;The Sweetness of Forge tting. She \;is published in more than thirty \;languages&nbs p\;and is the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series\, \;Frien ds &\; Fiction. She lives in Orlando\, Florida.
\nThe Paris Daughter begins in Paris\, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois d e Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe\, neith er woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.
\n< p>When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation\, she entrusts Juli ette with the most precious thing in her life&mdash\;her young daughter\, playmate to Juliette&rsquo\;s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war\ , not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette&rsquo\;s Librairie des R& ecirc\;ves\, and\, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood\, Juliette&rsqu o\;s world is destroyed along with it.\nMore than a year later\, wi th the war finally ending\, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter\, o nly to find her friend&rsquo\;s bookstore reduced to rubble&mdash\;and Jul iette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last\, t errible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace\, taking all the answers with her. Elise&rsquo\;s desperate search leads her to New York&mdash\;and to Juliette&mdash\;one final\, fateful time.
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