Two women. Two eras. One faded blue coat that holds the secrets of the past and the promise of the future.Paris, 1942. In a city gripped by fear and silence, nineteen-year-old Leah Manheim stands beneath the stone arches of Saint-Ambroise Cathedral, the collar of her blue coat pulled high against the biting wind. As a courier for the resistance, she knows every mission could be her last. Her parents have vanished into the darkness of war. Now Leah must carry on alone, finding the courage and strength to do what must be done.
Brooklyn, NY, Present Day.When Rose Levi opens her late grandmother's closet, she doesn't expect to find a ghost. Yet there it is: a delicate blue coat, dusty and worn, wrapped in faded tissue paper. Tucked into a pocket is a packet of yellowed letters tied with ribbon. The handwriting is familiar. The secrets are not. As Rose begins to read, time begins to stir. Shadows gather. Names she's never heard whisper through her memory. Places she's never been to call to her like half-remembered dreams. Her grandmother's past is reaching out-and it's pulling Rose with it.
Amazon bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Da Vinci and The Last Daughter, Belle Ami brings us a sweeping, poignant, and suspenseful story of war and memory, love and legacy, The Blue Coat Saga is a haunting journey through time, where the past is waiting to be discovered and the truth is waiting to be set free.