There’s no room for ego in our organization, and Rémy knows that. “Wait, Rémy!” Eva stood and started to go after him.Įva stopped and sighed. He turned and strode away, slamming the door to the confessional. Rémy’s nostrils flared, and this time, when he spoke under his breath, the words were clear-and not particularly nice. “I was rather thinking that you could be hers.” Père Clément’s lips twitched at the corners. “I would be happy to take her on as my assistant.” “So let’s see if Eva is better at creating them, and quickly,” Père Clément said. “Well, I’m better than she is at erasing things,” Rémy finally grumbled. Would you have gone running after her to Paris without telling me if you didn’t?”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Eva.” He turned to Rémy. Rémy already knows my real name you might as well, too.” Though I don’t know if it will work.”Įva gave him a look and then turned back to the priest. “You say you have an idea for how to produce documents more quickly?” “Colette,” he said when Rémy finally took a breath after reminding them how revolutionary his own lactic acid idea had been. Eva had found him in an empty confession booth, and he had lowered the privacy screen and asked her to bring Rémy in for a quick chat. Ten minutes later, Père Clément was watching Rémy and Eva bicker about who had the better ideas for forgery, a bemused expression on his face. As she proves her worth and wins their trust, she begins to learn their closely guarded secrets. In this special selection from The Book of Lost Names, Eva (who has been going by Colette) begins to put her forgery talents to good use with help from French Resistance members Père Clément and Rémy. But to do so she’ll have to overcome her own memories of love, loss, and betrayal. When details emerge about a Book of Lost Names, Eva knows she might be the only person who can crack the code and reunite families that were torn apart during the war. Years later, Eva is a semi-retired librarian and her memories of that time are too painful to look back on.

Learning that her father was taken to Auschwitz inspires Eva to join forces with the French Resistance, forging identity documents to help Jews escape. After her father, a Polish Jew, is arrested, graduate student Eva Traube Abrams and her mother manage to escape from Nazi-occupied Paris. Inspired by a true story, The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel, is a poignant and emotional World War II tale.

The book of the lost names