As France succumbs to German occupation, a young Jewish girl is given a new name—Marie-Jeanne—and sent to live in a rural village. Seeking to erase her former identity, she becomes devoutly Catholic. But the compromises required to maintain this false persona corrode her soul, making her a danger to the French resistance. Marie-Jeanne fully engages the reader's sympathies, and it's this that makes her descent into darkness so devastating. A smartly constructed and tautly paced thriller.