"The Book of Lost Names" by Kristin Harmel. I read this in the last 24 hours and could. not. put. it. down! I read "The Paris Daughter" almost 2 years ago and just couldn't read this right away. My advice though is if you read one and like it read the other fairly soon after. I picked it up 3 times and just couldn't...I highly recommend even though it is so chilling to read with such detail the atrocities when we are in such peril right now here in the US. 5 star!

Eva is 23, a Jewish graduate student at the Sorbonne in Paris. After her father, a Polish Jew, is arrested in a roundup, Eva and her mother *Mamusia* must flee Paris for the Free Zone (Vichy France).

Eva discovers she has a talent: *forgery*. She can perfectly forge identity documents, birth certificates, and baptism papers that hide someone's Jewish identity.

They find refuge in the tiny mountain town of *Aurignon* (Aurignon is fictional, based on real towns).

There, a Catholic priest, *Père Clément*, recruits her into the *French Resistance*. She works with a handsome young forger, *Rémy Duchamp*.

Together, Eva and Rémy forge hundreds of documents for Jewish families, especially *children*, to help them escape over the mountains to neutral Switzerland.

But Eva has a heartbreak: If she erases a child's real name and gives them a new French name to save their life, what if that child is so young they forget who they really are? Their identity will be lost forever.