Until Leaves Fall in Paris by Sarah Sundin

Until Leaves Fall in Paris
by Sarah Sundin

ISBN-13: 9780800736378
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Baker Publishing
Released: February 1st 2022

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description from Goodreads:
As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books.

Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army convinces him to keep his factory running and obtain military information from his German customers. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product and hiding British airmen in his factory. After they meet in the bookstore, Paul and Lucie are drawn to each other, but she rejects him when she discovers he sells to the Germans. And for Paul to win her trust would mean betraying his mission.


My Review:
Until Leaves Fall in Paris is a Christian romance set in Paris starting in May 1940 but mainly from April 1941 to March 1942. Lucie reaches out to widower Paul's lonely young daughter because she doesn't feel it's right to punish her for her father's actions (of selling civilian-use trucks to the Germans). Paul appreciates her help and helps her learn to run the store. They fight their attraction to each other's thoughtful, kind personality until they finally discover that both are doing resistance work--work that could get either arrested at any time if discovered by the wrong person.

The characters were well-developed, had complexity, and acted realistically to events. They felt like real people who really lived through these events. The historical details were woven into the story and brought the story alive in my imagination. Paul and Lucie were engaging characters who helped others and supported each other. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd highly recommend this enjoyable historical romance.


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