Hiding Places

It was meant to be an adventure…

Fresh out of school, Matthew and James — armed with a pencil sketch and a village name — set off for the French Alps to retrace Matthews late grandfathers escape route from a wartime ambush on a Nazi convoy in 1943.

But mountains hold secrets and hiding places...

When the boys make a grim discovery in a remote cave, it shakes the village of Vionène, reawakening memories of the Nazi occupation, rekindling a local mystery, and upending the life of a local girl whose family secrets had been buried for half a century.

And adventures can quickly turn dangerous…

The boys find themselves entangled in suspicion and accusations when Matthew discovers that his grandfather was involved in far more than fighting the Nazis. When dangerous individuals take notice, the boys are plunged into a quest that tests their friendship and endurance.

Set amid the dramatic landscape of the French Alps and told from two perspectives half a century apart. Hiding Places is part wartime mystery, part coming-of-age tale; it is a story of friendship and of the buried truths so many families unknowingly carry. It will appeal to World War II enthusiasts and readers of historical fiction alike, and to anyone drawn to stories of descendants coming to terms with their forebears hidden lives and seemingly incomprehensible choices.