In Occupied Paris, two young women plan the ultimate act of Resistance - to kill the head of the collabo regime.
The Nazis are stifling Paris. Great black swastikas are crawling everywhere like spiders.Collaboration is the policy of the puppet Vichy government.
The brothers are away - PoWs, or with the Free French
So what can two young women do to resist?
Kill Marshall Petain, the head of the puppet government, says Maddie.
But can she persuade her blood sister Annie to join the plot?
The reprisals will be terrible. Isn’t there a pure way to resist?
Then Maddie starts going with a German
And everything falls apart A stunning new novel about life and love and responsibility in darkest times.