A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a womans quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival, fromNew York Timesbestselling author Pam Jenoff

London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before, when she worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europeand that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend Franny during the war.

Following the trail of clues to Paris, Louise discovers the dark history of Lvitana once-glamorous department store that served as a Nazi prisonand Helaine, a woman who was imprisoned there, torn apart from her husband when the Germans invaded France. Louise races to find the connection between the necklace, the store and Frannys death. But nothing is as it seems, and there are forces determined to keep the truth buried forever