Paris, June 1940. The Nazis are coming, and the City of Light is going dark.
Claire Beaumont is a typist and translator at the Palais de Chaillot ? careful, logical, cautious by nature. But when German boots march down the Champs-Élysées, caution becomes a luxury she can no longer afford.
What begins as whispered conversations among museum colleagues becomes something far more dangerous: an underground resistance network with women printing forbidden newspapers, smuggling downed pilots, and defying an occupation that grows more brutal by the day. One of those pilots is Kit Vane, a RAF flyer who escapes a German prison camp and makes his way to Paris. He expects a seasoned operative. Claire expects someone who needs rescuing. They are both wrong, and neither of them forgets it.
But there is no time for what sparks between them, not with the Gestapo tightening its grip and a traitor hidden somewhere in their midst. When betrayal strikes, Claire discovers that survival demands more than intellect. It demands courage she never knew she had.
From the shadowed streets of Montparnasse to a vineyard estate straddling the line between occupied and free France, The Last Light of Paris is a sweeping story of women who refused to surrender even when their country did.
