It was so good, you don’t want to put it down. I fell in love with the characters. ✩✩✩✩✩ Reader Review
Paris, 1939. Jeanne Adler believed the city was untouchable. Her life was neatly divided between books, family, and the meaningless romances of a nineteen-year-old girl. Then, just as she found real love, Hitler’s armies marched across Europe.
Her father, a Jewish man, realized the streets he once called home were no longer safe. And Oliver, the British diplomat she held closer than life itself, was hunted by the Gestapo.
Jeanne and Oliver fight a war without uniforms, joining the French Resistance. Their battlefield extends far beyond the front lines. With each forged passport and each forbidden word spoken in the shadows of occupied Paris, the risks increase.
Far away, Oliver’s best friend must survive in hostile Berlin Henry, an RAF pilot, is forced to hide in the heart of the Reich-and finds a love that could get him executed. Praised by Reedsy Discovery, who defined Hearts Beneath the Broken Sky as a story about love that dares to exist when the future feels fragile and about hope persisting even as the sky darkens.
Paris, 1942. One fateful night. A death that could have been prevented. A first dance cut short. It was the night when a single shot set everything else in motion.
The city where Jeanne Adler came of age-full of joy and possibility-now buckles under German repression. And one of her decisions will cost more than she ever imagined paying-death. In Washington, Oliver Taylor fights against Nazism with the weapons of intelligence while waiting to return to the city and the woman he refuses to lose. Just as he is about to leave, news arrives from France-and what it reveals will bring him a new kind of ruin.
In Berlin, Henry-concealed behind a false identity-ventures into the heart of Nazism to save the woman he loves from the terror consuming Europe.
Lies Beneath the Broken Sky is a historical novel inspired by true events of the Second World War. It is a story of love, loss, and the lies people tell to survive.
For readers of The Nightingale, The Alice Network, and All the LightWe Cannot See.
When the war began, they survived on hope. By the end, they would be defined by everything they had lost.
The story opens in 1942 and runs through the war’s final reckoning in 1946, bringing every thread of the Broken Sky Saga to a close.
As Germany falls, Hitler lies dead, and the world convenes at Nuremberg to answer for the Reich’s crimes, old wounds reopen and long-buried truths finally surface.
A story where love, loyalty, and sacrifice are pushed to their limits-and where one final scene carries the weight of everything that came before it.
For readers of The Nightingale, The Alice Network, and All the Light We Cannot See.
Sixteen-year-old Jeanne Adler dreams of BEFORE THE SKY BROKE
university and love as she wanders through bookstores and cafés.
But her parents are keeping a dangerous secret in a city shadowed by growing intolerance-and in a world where war has ceased to be an “if” and has become a “when.”
As the golden light of the Seine dims under the weight of looming conflict, the life Jeanne knows begins to dissolve. A cruel remark on the radio. A shuttered shop window. The sudden, terrifying silence in her father’s study.
Caught between the innocence of her youth and the encroaching darkness of Nazi Germany, Jeanne watches fear and suspicion spread through the city she loves. And as each new headline pulls her family closer to catastrophe, she discovers that being brave means keeping hope alive.
Before the bombs fall. Before the occupation. Before the sky broke.
An atmospheric and emotional World War II prequel perfect for readers of The Nightingale, The Alice Network, and All the Light We Cannot See.
