Natasha Lester Books in Order

Marie-Madeleine is a fearless young Parisienne who loves fast cars, flying and testing limits, until war pushes her into intelligence work. As she helps build and eventually lead the clandestine Alliance spy network, she fights to outwit the Nazis while protecting her agents, her children and the man she loves.

Camille is an organ transplant nurse who supports families through heartbreaking decisions, while her own young daughter Addie waits desperately for a donor. Asked to curate an exhibition of artwork linked to her late mother, Camille must confront buried family secrets as she weighs how much a parent can give without losing herself.

Alix St. Pierre goes from orphaned scholarship girl to New York advertising whiz, then is recruited into the American intelligence service and sent to Switzerland to work with the Italian Resistance. After the war she becomes publicity director for the new House of Dior in Paris, until a man from her past returns and she must risk everything to secure justice.

From the salons of Paris to the runways of 1970s New York, three generations of Bricard women fight to be seen as creators, not just muses. Mizza builds a career beside Christian Dior, her daughter Astrid vanishes after a pivotal fashion show, and Blythe pieces together the truth about talent, sacrifice and her missing mother.

In Nazi-occupied Paris, Louvre worker Eliane Dufort must catalogue paintings the Germans are stealing, secretly feeding information to the Resistance even as she doubts the man she loves. In the present day, fashion dealer Remy Lang retreats to a Riviera villa she has inherited, where a catalogue of looted art and a familiar painting expose the truth about her family.

Talented pilot Skye Penrose joins the British war effort in 1939 and reconnects with her estranged sister and childhood soulmate Nicholas, now engaged to glamorous Frenchwoman Margaux Jourdan. Generations later, Australian fashion conservator Kat Jourdan discovers a wardrobe of Dior gowns in her grandmother's Cornish cottage and uncovers a story of resistance, betrayal and enduring love.

In 1942, American model Jessica May remakes herself as a photojournalist on the front lines of World War II and forms an intense bond with a lonely orphan girl in an army hospital. In 2005, curator D'Arcy Hallworth is hired to catalogue a famous collection of war photographs and slowly learns how her own family is woven through the images.

As the Germans close in on Paris in 1940, young seamstress Estella Bissette escapes to New York with a single suitcase, her sewing machine and a dream of opening her own atelier. Decades later, her granddaughter Fabienne curates an exhibition of Estella's work and uncovers a hidden history of wartime danger, reinvention and family secrets.

In 1918 England, Leonora "Leo" East secretly blends cosmetics in the back of her father's chemist shop and dreams of building a brand of her own. When Spanish flu shatters her world, she starts over in New York, where her success and sacrifices cast a long shadow over her ballerina daughter Alice.

In 1920s Manhattan, small-town Evelyn Lockhart longs to be an obstetrician rather than a respectable wife. To fund medical school she secretly auditions for the Ziegfeld Follies, risking scandal at home and a tender new romance in glittering Jazz Age New York.

In 1922 Concord, Massachusetts, dutiful college student Evelyn Lockhart is expected to marry her wealthy neighbor and settle down. A chance meeting leads to a day of daring choices that opens her eyes to independence, education and a future that is entirely her own.

Gaelle has a dream job at a fashion magazine and a devoted surgeon husband, until a devastating loss sends her fleeing to a coastal town. There, a wary friendship with a teenager and memories of her French childhood push her to face grief and belonging.