The Mademoiselle Alliance by Natasha Lester
How did a young Parisian mother, celebrated for her beauty and glamour, come to lead the largest spy network in occupied France?
Morocco, 1928. Marie-Madeleine Méric is not the kind of woman who stays quietly at her husband’s side. Polyglot, pianist, and pilot, she is a woman of many skills, with unconventional interests—like driving in car rallies—that earn her a daredevil reputation. But dabbling in intelligence work to assist her military officer husband and the French government helps her recognize who she is at heart: an adventurer.
Paris, 1936. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Marie-Madeleine is living in France, her marriage now in shambles, when a chance encounter with an enigmatic spy turns her life upside down. He recruits her to help build a resistance network, and she conceals her identity—and gender—as she navigates a perilous double life.
Eventually, she steps into the role of leader of what is now known as Alliance, despite the naysayers who doubt in a woman’s ability to do so. Capture and death are only a heartbeat away for both Marie-Madeleine and the agents under her care. At the helm of Alliance, she achieves seemingly impossible feats of espionage that help turn the tide of the war. But the most impossible, and dangerous, feat of them all? Falling in love.
- File Name:the-mademoiselle-alliance-by-natasha-lester.epub
- Original Title:The Mademoiselle Alliance
- Creator:Natasha Lester
- Language:en-US
- Identifier:9780593726549
- Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
- Date:2025-04-08
- File Size:2.898 MB
Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. By Natasha Lester
- 3. Title Page
- 4. Copyright
- 5. Contents
- 6. Dedication
- 7. Epigraph
- 8. Prologue
- 9. Part One: Adventurer
- Chapter 1: I Never Want to Leave
- Chapter 2: How Lucky I Am to Be French
- Chapter 3: Sepia Love
- Chapter 4: A Wild Child
- Chapter 5: You’re a Go-Between
- Chapter 6: Like I’m Seventeen Again
- Chapter 7: Full Throttle
- Chapter 8: Good God, It’s a Woman!
- Chapter 9: A World That Has No Need of Women
- Chapter 10: It’s Time to Lose Ourselves
- Chapter 11: My Armor
- Chapter 12: It’s Time to Be a Warrior
- 10. Part Two: Warrior
- Chapter 13: I’m Going to Madrid
- Chapter 14: Trying to Squeeze a Horse into a Handbag
- Chapter 15: It’s All Just Beautiful Risk
- Chapter 16: Tonight Will Not Be the Last Time I Weep
- 11. Part Three: Queen
- Chapter 17: Lingering
- Chapter 18: I Am Hérisson the Hedgehog
- Chapter 19: If Only I’d Never…
- Chapter 20: Don’t Regret This
- Chapter 21: The Time Has Come to Kill
- Chapter 22: The Animals Are Ill with the Plague
- Chapter 23: The Most Terrible Year of All
- 12. Part Four: Prey
- Chapter 24: No One Believes a Piece of Paper Can Be a Noose
- Chapter 25: This Will Only Be a Tragedy if I Sit Here Weeping
- Chapter 26: My Court Is a Brothel
- Chapter 27: I Named Him Achille
- Chapter 28: He’s Either a Fool or a Traitor
- Chapter 29: You Matter
- Chapter 30: A Cunning Little Shit
- Chapter 31: The Fight We Have to Have Is Here
- Chapter 32: Forever
- Chapter 33: The Noose of Pink Heather
- 13. Part Five: Outlaw
- Chapter 34: The Very Last Station before Paris
- Chapter 35: Did You Do What I Asked?
- Chapter 36: Someone Must Be Talking
- Chapter 37: A Queen Ruling over a Palace of Bones
- Chapter 38: Climb to Freedom
- Chapter 39: If You Get in My Way, I’ll Watch You Burn
- Chapter 40: The Start of the End
- Chapter 41: The Last Road Remaining
- Chapter 42: Operation Freedom
- Chapter 43: Vanquished
- Chapter 44: I Forget to Push the Bolt Across
- Chapter 45: The Freedom Bar
- Chapter 46: The One Who Did Not Die
- Chapter 47: We Were So Young
- Chapter 48: King of Courage
- Chapter 49: One Year in Prison
- Chapter 50: The Story of the Eagle
- Chapter 51: Sixteen Months in Prison
- Chapter 52: Armageddon
- 14. Part Six: Woman
- Chapter 53: At Last, the Sky
- Chapter 54: We Were Just Paper Airplanes
- Chapter 55: I Will Ride with Him Again
- 15. Author’s Note
- 16. Acknowledgments
- 17. Reading Group Guide
- Walking in Marie-Madeleine’s Footsteps
- Timeline
- Questions and Topics for Discussion
- 18. About the Author
Natasha Lester
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