All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams

At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand, who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. Raised by her indomitable, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. Despite their conflicting loyalties, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love, but betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz - the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with unexpected consequences.įrance, 1942. She and the dashing young officer first met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles.

Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotelįrance, 1914. In addition to her solo work, White has also has co-authored four novels with Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig the most recent, The Lost Summers of Newport, was released in May 2022.The New York Times best-selling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel. White has published 27 novels to date, with the latest book, The Attic on Queen Street, released in November 2021. On Folly Beach, published in May 2010, was also a NYT bestseller.

The Girl on Legare Street reached The New York Times Best Seller list in November 2009. Her first book, In the Shadow of the Moon was a double finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. Most of White's novels are based in the low-country of the southeastern United States.

She attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Management. White was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and during her childhood lived in numerous states and also in Venezuela and London, England, where she graduated from The American School in London. Karen White is a New York Times bestselling American author of more than twenty-five novels.

All the Ways We Said Goodbye by Beatriz Williams