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From the author of the million-copy global best seller Lilac Girls, comes a captivating new historical novel, set during the American Civil War. It's a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty.

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939 - and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. 

It is 1914, and New York socialite Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be travelling to St Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and now Eliza is embarking on the trip of a lifetime to see the splendours of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia's imperial dynasty begins to fall, Eliza escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortune-teller's daughter, Varinka, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household.

À New York, Caroline Ferriday travaille au consulat français. Mais lorsque les armées hitlériennes envahissent la Pologne en septembre 1939, c'est tout son quotidien qui va être bouleversé. De l'autre côté de l'océan, Kasia Kuzmerick, une adolescente polonaise, laisse de côté son enfance pour travailler dans la résistance et faire passer des messages. Mais la moindre erreur peut être fatale. Pour l'ambitieuse Herta Oberheuser, médecin allemand, la proposition que lui fait le gouvernement SS va lui permettre d'enfin montrer toutes ses capacités.