Shadow Tree. Burning Tree, #2

Paris, 1942. Daphne Moreau has learned how to survive the Occupation: keep her head down, her voice soft, and her husband's secrets to herself. Jacques is a gendarme who brings home food with no questions asked and goes silent whenever the city turns dangerous. She has chosen not to look too closely at why. Then she looks. When Daphne understands the full extent of her husband's collaboration with the Nazi machinery of repression, silence becomes its own kind of betrayal.
A chance act of empathy draws her to two children left behind after a young woman is arrested - and pulls her reluctantly into a hidden world of whispered information and people moved like contraband. She learns to work alongside women who trade in secrets and survival. Every choice carries a cost. Every favour leaves a thread that can be pulled. When the line between resistance and collaboration begins to disappear, Daphne must decide how much of herself she can afford to lose.
In a city that rewards obedience and punishes conscience, doing the right thing may be the most dangerous thing of all.