For Such a Time: Women of Valor Series, Book 1

The France they have known is crumbling around them. Two courageous women face danger and betrayal under Hitler's tyranny.

Giselle Munier and Jean Thornton are more like sisters than cousins, having spent many summers together while Giselle's French father taught at the American university. But with the outbreak of World War II, both women's lives take a dramatic turn.

Jean joins the American Red Cross and is assigned to a sprawling military hospital in Wales. But Giselle, active in the French Resistance, has been betrayed and arrested by the Nazis. Though underground compatriots are able to rescue and hide her, Giselle remains in grave danger because she knows the identity of other Resistance leaders.

Jean is determined to try smuggling Giselle to freedom, no matter how ill-advised the idea seems. The Allies prepare to invade Europe while she makes intricate plans for a parachute jump into occupied France. But for such a plan to succeed, both women will need to summon strength and courage far beyond their own resources.

For Such a Time is the first novel in Elyse Larson's Women of Valor series.