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France, 1918. As German shells fall on the fields of Picardy, Baroness Agnès de Saint-Aubin fights to save French soldiers in a frontline château hospital — a woman practising medicine in a man's war, and hiding a secret that could cost her everything: by blood, she belongs to the enemy.
When the occupying forces break through the château's doors, the danger she has spent her life outrunning closes in. Her one steadying presence is Alan, the American surgeon at her side — the man who calms the storm in her, and the one she can never have.
Beyond the trenches, Countess Madeleine de Dragoncourt has just bolted from a Swiss finishing school — pet monkey and all — to be where the war actually is. Bright, reckless and gloriously impossible to pin down, she's written off as a frivolous society darling. It is the gravest mistake her enemies will make. Determined to win back her occupied home, she turns charm into cover and trades ballrooms for the dangerous work of resistance — her nerve matched only by the British officer who sees exactly who she is becoming.
A grave young doctor and a runaway countess, bound by an unlikely friendship and forged by sacrifice. The choices these two women make in one war will echo into the next — when their daughters rise to resist a new darkness.
In Picardy's Fields is the standalone prequel to The Resistance Girl Series: sweeping World War I historical fiction for readers of Kristin Hannah and Martha Hall Kelly, and for anyone who loves the aristocratic sweep of Downton Abbey. Emotional and character-driven, it weaves slow-burn romance, women's courage under occupation, and the first threads of a two-war family saga.
Genre: Historical
When the occupying forces break through the château's doors, the danger she has spent her life outrunning closes in. Her one steadying presence is Alan, the American surgeon at her side — the man who calms the storm in her, and the one she can never have.
Beyond the trenches, Countess Madeleine de Dragoncourt has just bolted from a Swiss finishing school — pet monkey and all — to be where the war actually is. Bright, reckless and gloriously impossible to pin down, she's written off as a frivolous society darling. It is the gravest mistake her enemies will make. Determined to win back her occupied home, she turns charm into cover and trades ballrooms for the dangerous work of resistance — her nerve matched only by the British officer who sees exactly who she is becoming.
A grave young doctor and a runaway countess, bound by an unlikely friendship and forged by sacrifice. The choices these two women make in one war will echo into the next — when their daughters rise to resist a new darkness.
In Picardy's Fields is the standalone prequel to The Resistance Girl Series: sweeping World War I historical fiction for readers of Kristin Hannah and Martha Hall Kelly, and for anyone who loves the aristocratic sweep of Downton Abbey. Emotional and character-driven, it weaves slow-burn romance, women's courage under occupation, and the first threads of a two-war family saga.
Genre: Historical
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