The French Winemaker’s Daughter: A Powerful Dual Timeline WWII Romance – Two Women Connected by Wine Stolen from Nazi Paris

Set during World War II, this historical fiction novel follows two women across generations who are connected by a valuable bottle of wine stolen by the Nazis. In 1942, seven-year-old Martine witnesses Nazi soldiers taking her father away. She carries a bottle of wine she has been instructed to protect, along with a note bearing her aunt's Paris address. After the soldiers leave, Martine drops the bottle and flees to a neighbor, who puts her on a train to Paris during the Nazi occupation. When she arrives, her aunt is missing. Alone in the city, Martine eventually falls asleep on the doorstep of Hotel Drouot, where Sister Ada discovers her and brings her to the abbey. In 1990, Charlotte, a commercial airline pilot, attends an auction at Hotel Drouot with her boyfriend Henri. Henri purchases a box of wine preserved from the German occupation and gives Charlotte an apparently inferior bottle from inside. When Charlotte cleans the label, she discovers something unexpected that prompts her to investigate the bottle's origins, leading her back fifty years into the past. The novel explores themes of love, war, family, and loyalty through the interconnected stories of these two women.