“Michèle Phoenix beautifully entwines the lives of Jessica, a survivor of the 2015 Paris terror attacks, and Adeline, a victim of Protestant persecution in 17th-century France.”- BookPage
Fluid writing and seamless transitions from history to the present make this the author’s best book yet.”- Library Journal, starred review A surprising plot twist adds a bittersweet flavor. “Phoenix’s powerful and compelling novel reflects how the past can give us hope for the future. “I write for our descendants, for those who will not understand the cost of our survival.”ĭetermined to learn the Baillard family’s fate, Jessica retraces their flight from France to England, spurred on by a need she doesn’t understand.Ĭould this stranger who lived three hundred years before hold the key to Jessica’s survival? less … As new friends help her to translate the archaic French, they uncover the story of Adeline Baillard, a young woman who lived centuries before-her faith condemned, her life endangered, her community decimated by the Huguenot persecution. “Now you need to figure out what they’re trying to say.”ĭuring a stop at a country flea market, Jessica finds a faded document concealed in an antique. “The pages found you,” Patrick whispered. Worn down by his insistence, she reluctantly agrees to follow through with the trip they’d planned before the tragedy. But Patrick, the steadfast friend who hasn’t left her side, urges her to reconsider her decision.
When Jessica regains consciousness in a French hospital on the day after the Paris attacks, all she can think of is fleeing the site of the horror she survived. “There were seconds, when I woke, when the world felt unshrouded. Then memory returned.”
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