The Lost Woman: A Historical WWII novel of Art, Love, and Resistance by Karen Mulvahill

To reclaim what the Nazis stole, she must face what she tried to forget. Paris, 1940. Nicole Cassin is a Jewish teenager living above her family’s art gallery when the Nazis occupy the city. Overnight, everything is taken: her home, her security, her future, and Nicole is forced to grow up fast. As Paris sinks deeper into fear and suspicion, she is drawn into the Resistance and into a world where a whispered name or a single painting can mean the difference between freedom and tragedy. Decades later in New York, Nicole—widowed and running out of time—receives a letter that upends the life she has spent years trying to build. Determined to reclaim her family’s legacy, she hires Robert, an art historian with ties to the wartime efforts to save Europe’s cultural treasures, to trace the fate of her parents’ stolen collection, including a portrait of her mother painted by Picasso. What begins as a search for lost paintings becomes something far more dangerous. Robert’s investigation leads into a shadowy network of collaborators, ex-Nazis, and art dealers, where fortunes were made in the ruins of war, and where the truth about Nicole’s past has been waiting, buried in plain sight. Read more