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Authors: Melanie Dobson

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or deceased, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by Melanie Dobson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dobson, Melanie B.

Chateau of secrets : a novel / Melanie Dobson.

p. cm.

1. France—History—German occupation, 1940-1945—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Underground movements—France—Fiction. 3. Nobility—France—Fiction. 4. Jews—France—History—Fiction. 5. Family secrets—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3604.O25C54 2014

813'.6—dc23

2013043579

ISBN 978-1-4767-4611-1

ISBN 978-1-4767-4612-8 (ebook)

CONTENTS

Part One

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Part Two

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Part Three

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Epilogue

Author’s Note

Acknowldgements

Reading Club Guide

About Melanie Dobson

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