Dancing with Deception: Love, Lust & Deceit in Occupied Paris

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Marisa Carnarvon is an enigma to her family. In 1938 she turns her back on her familys money and status and leaves her comfortable pre-war Sydney lifestyle to become a nurse in a London city hospital. Against the backdrop of looming conflict, she moves to a Red Cross hospital in Paris in July 1939, totally unprepared for the challenge of life in an occupied city. In June 1940 the Germans invade Paris and the young nurse is soon pressured by the leader of the local resistance cell to work for the fledgling movement. Her life is further enmeshed by the arrival of a new Gestapo chief who sets out to seduce her. Marisas position becomes increasingly precarious as the resistance hunts for a traitor in the organisation. Suspicion falls on one of the hospitals doctors and he is murdered, throwing Marisa into the resistance firing line. As the war approaches its climax, Marisas Gestapo lover flees and the young nurse follows. He is ultimately revealed as a key operator in a resistance escape line that traverses four countries. But he has a secret which threatens to crush him. Marisa finally discovers the truth behind the man who risked his life to save others in a masterpiece of deception.

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Catherine McCullaghis a highly respected editor and author. She has worked as an editor and advisor on numerous military and Australian history books and has two successful non-fiction books, Willingly into the Fray, War Child and Dancing with Deception, a historical fiction also set in WWII. She has a Bachelor of Arts and after a 20 year career in the Army as a teacher and linguist now follows her passion as a writer and editor.