New York Times bestselling author of THE PARIS SEAMSTRESS and THE PARIS ORPHAN Natasha Lester's THE SECRET LIFE OF MARIE MADELEINE, a novel based on the true life of one of history's little-known heroes, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, a chic Parisienne woman and mother who helped create, and ultimately took charge of, Alliance, the most effective and long-lived Resistance network in Europe, twice escaping from Nazi prisons, defying all odds of survival and ultimately finding a doomed but true love amid the wreckage of war, to Hilary Rubin Teeman at Ballantine, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Kevan Lyon at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (NA).

Rights also to Ruth Jones at Little Brown UK, and again to Rebecca Saunders at Hachette Australia, by Kevan Lyon at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

Translation: Taryn Fagerness Agency