The Mechanism of Paris

A Novel of Secrets, Family, and the Time That Finally Tells the Truth

von J. Mello

170 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Paris, 1940. Under Nazi occupation, the tower clocks of the city keep a secret: every bell struck off rhythm, every hand stopped at an impossible hour, is a message from the French Resistance. Amélia Rousseau, a clockmaker's daughter, is one of the few who can decode them - and one of the network's most trusted messengers.When she falls for Henri, a math teacher tied to another Resistance cell, she knows she's risking more than her own life. Their love blooms in stolen meetings inside an abandoned chapel - until the war takes Henri from her, leaving her pregnant, alone, and facing an impossible choice: collaborate with a German officer to survive childbirth, or lose the daughter she carries.The decision will cost Amélia everything she built - her honor, her network, and finally, the daughter herself, whom she hands over to a distant cousin to protect her from a name marked as betrayal.Paris, present day. Historian Sophie Lambert never knew why her grandmother kept a broken pocket watch her entire life without ever explaining its origin. When her grandmother dies and leaves her the watch, Sophie plunges into an investigation of the clandestine restoration of the legendary Panthéon clock - and discovers that the two mysteries, separated by eighty years, are deeply intertwined.Alongside Étienne, a member of a clandestine network dedicated to preserving the memory the French state preferred to forget, Sophie deciphers a decades-old code engraved in the mechanism of the watch - and discovers she's about to uncover not just the truth about a woman forgotten by history, but the truth about her own origin.The Mechanism of Paris is a dual-timeline historical novel about quiet courage, impossible choices, and the power of love to cross generations - inspired by real events surrounding the French Resistance and the secret restoration of the Panthéon clock by the clandestine group known as the Untergunther.For all the women who, in one way or another, are part of a resistance - today and always.

• ISBN: 9798193968375
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp