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The sewing room was the last place anyone had seen her daughter alive.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorthern Ireland, 1942.\u003c\/strong\u003e Flora Toussaint packs parachutes for the RAF, haunted by the twin daughters she was forced to give up eighteen years ago. When British intelligence shows her photographs of her girls - now young women in occupied Paris - her world shifts. One is safe. One has vanished. And their father, the celebrated couturier Lucien Lumineau, is suspected of collaborating with the Nazis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFlora agrees to a dangerous mission: parachute into France, pose as a seamstress at the Moulin Rouge, and uncover the truth. Lodging above a brothel where Edith Piaf sings after hours and where Pablo Picasso still holds court, she mends costumes, searches for any trace of her missing daughter between curfews, and circles closer to Lucien.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Lucien isn't the man she remembers. Neither is their history. And what Flora discovers will unravel everything she thought she knew - about Lucien, about her daughters, and about the night she gave them away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sweeping tale of wartime Paris, family secrets and impossible choices. 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