Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code Name Hélène is a spellbinding and moving story of enduring love, remarkable sacrifice and unfaltering resolve that chronicles the true exploits of a woman who deserves to be a household name.

The Winemaker’s Wife is a beautifully told, atmospheric story about redemption, heartbreak, resilience, and courage. Harmel writes a poignant novel based loosely on the true story of an American woman who helped on the Comet Line, which rescued hundreds of airmen and soldiers.

When Céline recklessly follows her heart in one desperate bid for happiness, and Inès makes a dangerous mistake with a Nazi collaborator, they risk the lives of those they love—and the champagne house that ties them together.

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Maison Chauveau is fictional, but other real-life Champagne houses and people associated with them appear in the book, along with lots of information about the methode champenoise. The region was in fact a center for resistance to the Nazis during the war.

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She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in more than sixty years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names….Product Details.

The autobiography of the woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse1985
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In 1956, Australian author Russell Braddon wrote Nancy Wake: The Story of a Very Brave Woman (ISBN 978-0-7524-5485-6). Nancy Wake wrote her own account (first published 1985) with the original title, The White Mouse (“The autobiography of the woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse”) ( ISBN 0-7251-0755-3).

Kristin Harmel is the international bestselling author of a dozen novels including The Book of Lost Names, The Winemaker’s Wife, The Room on Rue Amélie, and The Sweetness of Forgetting. Her work has been featured in People , Woman’s Day, Men’s Health, and Ladies’ Home Journal, among many other media outlets. She lives in Orlando, Florida.

Kristin Harmel presents a well researched and detailed story set in wartime Reims France ( 1938-1943) and the other in contemporary France ( 2019).

Inès fears they’ll be exposed, but for Céline, half-Jewish wife of Chauveau’s chef de cave, the risk is even greater—rumors abound of Jews being shipped east to an unspeakable fate.

In the contemporary storyline, American Liv and her grandmother, Edith arrive in Reims where Liv is told that this trip is significant. Of course, a romance is thrown into the mix and the big “reveal” was not a surprise at all. Disappointing.