A Lion in Waiting

After surviving a massacre during the long retreat to Dunkirk in the spring of 1940, a young British officer finds sanctuary from the Germans and escape from his responsibilities by assuming the identity of a French teacher, a female teacher. This new life is not without its hazards as Ian, now living under the name Diane Lambert, is drawn back into a war he barely escaped. A charismatic Resistance leader, together with a handful of young girls at the school he is teaching at enlist Diane's assistance in gathering, processing and passing on intelligence on German activities onto the British. Not even the Allied invasion in 1944 frees Diane and her students from the hazards of war as the former British officer finds himself, once more, called upon to use long dormant skills to protect both the young girls he had come to cherish as well as an identity that is a far better fit than the one he left behind.