Paris '44From the Sunday Times bestselling author, comes a heart stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great and most dramatic hinge moments of WW2 When the Germans marched in and the lamps went out in the City of Light the millions who loved Paris mourned. Liberation, four years later, triggered an explosion of joy and relief. It was the party of the century and everybody who was anybody was there. General Charles

They thought Lucia enjoyed being here

'Here's a tale of Victorian London to freeze your blood on a cold winter's night' - Evening Telegraph

and instead of easy prey they find the trail of a myth

saving young Arthur Weatherburn

no one knows toxic plants like she does

which ended badly when most of the bird and insect samples he was carrying were lost in a fire on the ship taking him back to England

Ferdia saves the life of the man who would become one of the most legendary warriors in history: Richard Coeur de Lion

author of Me Before You

But as the ceremony begins

Three centuries later

and invited Krish to take his place as part of its ruling Triumvirate

He discovers that his wife has died and that his close friends have fallen in a war or moved away