Hannah Byron

Baroness Agnès de Saint-Aubin is a young Parisian doctor with a mysterious past. She follows the attractive--but married--Dr. Alan Bell to the front lines at the Château de Dragoncourt in Picardy, where they help battle the horrors of the trench war. When the castle is captured by German soldiers, the war turns personal as Agnès's secret becomes both a terrible liability--and a mighty weapon. Until Alan is severely injured and her world falls apart. Countess Madeleine, the young go-getter of the Dragoncourt family, is furious that she's been sidelined to a Swiss finishing school. Knowing her place is in the thick of the action, she runs away to join her siblings who are working as medics at the Château. Upon learning that it's fallen to the Germans, Madeleine is determined to effect a rescue of the French doctors and nurses held prisoner within. But what can a mere teenager do against the German army? Told from Agnès's and Madeleine's perspectives, In Picardy's Fields is a tribute to the brave young women of WW1. Through their work and courage, they set in motion the true liberation of 20th century women.

In Picardy's Fields: Prequel to The Diamond Courier

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The Diamond Courier

An absolutely gripping, emotional, World War 2 historical novel England, 1939 Would you settle for a marriage of convenience even if your intended is your best friend? Restless and independent, Lili Hamilton dreams of becoming a radical journalist. To avoid the scandal of her broken engagement to Scotsman Iain Brodie, her traditional parents send her to finishing school in Switzerland. On the way to her exile, she meets the dashing Leo Oppenheim, leader of the British Communist party, and a whole new world opens up for Lili. As the rhetoric of Hitler booms across the Continent and World War II erupts, Lili flees to Leo in London, embracing communist ideals and free love. But causes need money to thrive, and Leo has set his sights on a daring raid of the biggest diamond center in war-torn Europe: Antwerp. Lili infiltrates the Jewish community in Belgium and befriends both the Goldmunz family and Gestapo leader Ulrich Lemberg. Despite the horrors of war, despite witnessing the murder of a comrade, she becomes the diamond courier between Antwerp and London. With terrible consequences... The Diamond Courier is a young woman's fight to liberate herself from her privileged upbringing, for which she pays the highest price. Will love conquer over politics?

The Diamond Courier: Sequel to In Picardy's Fields

France 1917 Agnès Gunarsson de Melancourt is now a qualified doctor, and despite her youthful vow to shun Château de Dragancourt and its freethinking inhabitants, her oath as a physician weighs stronger. World War I is raging over the north of France, and the castle has been turned into a frontline hospital, with Elle and Jacques at the helm. Together with her best friend Kat, Agnès faces the scars from the past in the castle’s former dining room, now turned operation room, where they fight to save the lives of as many Allied soldiers as possible. There she meets a very changed Elle and Jacques, who now put duty before privilege. Can Agnès give Elle a second chance at friendship now they are stuck together? And why does the devilish handsome Jacques always bring down her defenses? Doctor Agnès has to face her own past in a war that is both personal and universal, finally uniting the opposing forces.

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