Until Leaves Fall in Paris by Sarah Sundin

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:  I found this book to be very good.  It seemed a little slow paced at first.  But once I got into it it picked up and I couldn't put it down.  The first part of the book was setting the scene for the rest of the book.  Ms. Sundin seems to get into how bad things were in France during the Nazi occupation without going into much detail.  How Lucie was always hungry, and Paul always had the best.  The trials of their escape from France kept me reading.

I recommend this book to all who love history, mystery, and a little romance thrown in.

I was given this book by Revell Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.