THE PAPER GIRL OF PARIS

Code Name Verity meets Jennifer Donnelly's Revolution in this dual point of view novel about Alice, a girl who sets out to discover the truth about her family's past after she inherits a Parisian apartment that has been abandoned since the end of World War II, and Adalyn, the great aunt she had never heard of who was rumored to have fraternized with Nazis.

Alice: Most people would not be upset when they learned they had inherited an apartment in Paris, but seventeen year old Alice is not most people. For one thing, the only reason Alice received the apartment is because her grandmother passed away a month ago. For another, neither Alice nor her parents knew that Gram owned anything other than her condo in New Jersey.

When Alice and her parents arrive in France to deal with the property they discover a home that has not been touched since the end of World War II. While Alice's parents are not interested in finding out why the apartment was left abandoned for so long, Alice is determined to uncover the truth about what happened to her grandmother's family, and why her grandmother never once mentioned that she had a sister. However, the story of what actually transpired during the dark and dangerous years under the Nazi occupation is far more complicated than even Alice would imagine.

Adalyn: The most frightening thing about the armistice for sixteen year old Adalyn was how, in the three months following the German takeover, Parisians had been trying to pretend that everything was normal. While to the rest of Parisian society Adalyn still appears to be the beautiful and promising soon to be socialite from before the war, since hearing whispers of a French resistance movement, she has become determined to become a torchbearer for the fight against the occupier.

As Alice is drawn into the world of resistance fighting she finds herself having to make more and more compromises - to her safety, to her reputation, and to her relationships with the people she loves the most - in order to do what she knows is right.

Jordyn Taylor is a New York City based writer and journalist, currently the news editor at Men's Health magazine and her work has appeared in the New York Observer, Mic, and Glamour.