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Chapters (117)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. The Cast of Characters
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. The Recruits
  8. CHAPTER TWO
  9. CHAPTER THREE
  10. CHAPTER FOUR
  11. CHAPTER FIVE
  12. CHAPTER SIX
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT
  15. CHAPTER NINE
  16. CHAPTER TEN
  17. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  18. CHAPTER TWELVE
  19. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  21. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  23. The Missions
  24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  25. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  26. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  35. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  36. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  45. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  46. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  54. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  55. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  56. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  63. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  64. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  65. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  66. The Game
  67. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  71. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  72. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  73. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  74. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  75. CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
  76. CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
  77. CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
  78. CHAPTER SEVENTY
  79. CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
  80. CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
  81. CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
  82. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
  83. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
  84. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
  85. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
  86. CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
  87. CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
  88. CHAPTER EIGHTY
  89. CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE
  90. CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO
  91. CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE
  92. CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR
  93. HOME
  94. CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE
  95. CHAPTER EIGHTY-SIX
  96. CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN
  97. CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT
  98. CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE
  99. CHAPTER NINETY
  100. CHAPTER NINETY-ONE
  101. CHAPTER NINETY-TWO
  102. CHAPTER NINETY-THREE
  103. CHAPTER NINETY-FOUR
  104. CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE
  105. CHAPTER NINETY-SIX
  106. CHAPTER NINETY-SEVEN
  107. CHAPTER NINETY-EIGHT
  108. CHAPTER NINETY-NINE
  109. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED
  110. CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED ONE
  111. Acknowledgments
  112. Discover More
  113. About the Author
  114. Reading Group Guide
  115. Discussion Questions
  116. A Conversation with Leila Meacham
  117. ALSO BY LEILA MEACHAM

Bridgette smiled. No one messed with Sister Mary Frances. But after lauds, the mother superior delivered a warning: “You have made an enemy of that jackanapes, ma petite chérie. You must be careful of the overzealous, puffed-up ones like him looking to make a name for themselves. Their noses make up for what our Father denied him in brains, and somehow he sniffed out something about you. He wanted to know where you came from, what you are doing here. I had to tell him your name and where you work. His name is Achim Fleischer. He grew up in this district, attended Saint Stephen’s, where I taught. He was an abysmal student. That is why I could set him straight without retaliation, but my position will not prevent him from keeping an eye on you.”

Bridgette took the warning seriously. The short little creeps in uniforms of authority were the worst. They were as insignificant as road dust but, once stirred up, capable of choking an engine. She thought suddenly of Steve Hammett and his watchful eye back in Traverse City High School. There wouldn’t have been a grease spot left of Achim Fleischer if Steve had gotten hold of him, but here in Paris, there would be no Steve Hammett keeping watch over her from afar. Achim Fleischer would be back, and she must be her own guardian angel.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Early that Sunday morning Brad had been at his surveillance post on the riverbank since dawn, a pattern he planned to establish every Sunday until his quarry spotted him. He had caught several good-sized perch to explain his presence should Major General Konrad March ever show himself and feel suspicious enough to inquire. If nothing else, at least Brad had caught another meal for Madame Gastain’s table. His dignified landlady would be starving if it weren’t for him, even though tonight would mark the fifth evening they’d had perch for dinner, but she’d be pleased at the potatoes he’d bought yesterday from a farmer who lived by the Loire and the bunch of wild asparagus he’d picked from a patch growing by a riverbank.

Brad heard his neighbor’s back door open and shut, the sound carrying over the low boxwood hedge. He stepped away from his casting spot to be seen and to give the corner of his eye a better view. His heart leaped. Finally, at last, the general! Brad moved farther back to offer his mark a better field of vision, winding his reel as if to call it a morning. Come on! Come on! he urged. Investigate the stranger who has come to fish on this private stretch of the Seine. Anyone posing as an innocent fisherman could be an Allied agent or a member of the Nazi Party sent to spy on one of its senior military officers.