The Messenger Girl

<p><strong>Paris 1942.</strong> The swastika hangs over the city of lights and seventeen-year-old Elise Dufour has lost everything her father taken by the Gestapo her mother long gone and only her younger brother left to protect.</p><p>When the Resistance recruits her as a courier Elise learns to slip past checkpoints with coded messages hidden in breadbaskets and hems. But one mission changes everything: in a forgotten barn outside Paris she finds a wounded RAF pilot hiding from the Germans. Against all odds Elise and Thomas carve out a fragile world of whispered secrets and stolen kisses even as the war closes in.</p><p>As reprisals grow bloodier and betrayals threaten to unravel the Resistance Elise faces a devastating choice: cling to love or risk everything for freedom.</p><p>From the terror of occupied Paris to the triumph of liberation Elise's story is one of unyielding courage heartbreaking loss and a promise that out of the ashes something enduring can be built.</p><p>Decades later the world will know her name though not for the reasons they expect.</p>