Inside the German-occupied château, a woman surgeon fought to keep Allied soldiers alive. Outside, the young countess whose home it was planned to free them.

Picardy, France, August 1918.

Behind the walls of the Château de Dragoncourt, now a field hospital in German hands, Baroness Agnès de Saint-Aubin operates on wounded Allied soldiers and keeps a secret that could cost her everything. The enemy commander watches her every move. One careless word, and all she has hidden will come to light. To shield her, Alan, the American surgeon at her side, plays a dangerous part: her husband. He is the man who calms the storm in her, and the one she can never have.

Outside the gates, Countess Madeleine de Dragoncourt has bolted from her Swiss finishing school—pet monkey and all—to find her home occupied by the enemy. Bright, reckless, and gloriously impossible to pin down, she is written off as a frivolous society darling. It is the gravest mistake the Germans will make.

A surgeon with a secret and a countess with a plan. The choices they make in one war will echo into the next, when their daughters rise to resist a new darkness.

In Picardy’s Fields is the standalone prequel to The Resistance Girl Series, the two-war family saga of these two women, their daughters, and the friends the daughters make at a Swiss finishing school. Inspired by real events on the Western Front in 1918, it blends World War I historical fiction, women’s courage under occupation and slow-burn romance, for readers of Kristin Hannah and Martha Hall Kelly, and anyone who loves the aristocratic sweep of Downton Abbey.