Lavender Garden

Note to readers: In the UK, this book is published under the title The Light Behind the Window. An aristocratic French family, a legendary ch teau, and buried secrets with the power to destroy two generations torn between duty and desire.La C te d'Azur, 1998: In the sun-dappled south of France, Emilie de la Martini res, the last of her gilded line, inherits her childhood home, a magnificent ch teau and vineyard. With the property comes a mountain of debt--and almost as many questions... Paris, 1944: A bright, young British office clerk, Constance Carruthers, is sent undercover to Paris to be part of Churchill's Special Operations Executive during the climax of the Nazi occupation. Separated from her contacts in the Resistance, she soon stumbles into the heart of a prominent family who regularly entertain elite members of the German military even as they plot to liberate France. But in a city rife with collaborators and rebels, Constance's most difficult decision may be determining