The Golden Doves
A Novel
Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II—in a pulse-pounding novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls.
American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette LaRue are heroes of the French resistance, stealing so many Nazi secrets that they become known as the Golden Doves, renowned across France and hunted by the Gestapo. Their courage will cost them everything. When they are arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, along with their loved ones, a shadowy Nazi doctor does unspeakable things to Josie's mother, a celebrated Jewish singer who had joined her daughter in Paris when the…
Martha Hall Kelly is the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls, Lost Roses, Sunflower Sisters, and The Golden Doves. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she was inspired to write this novel by her mother’s family, the Smiths, who settled on Martha’s Vineyard in 1891. She received journalism degrees from both Syracuse and Northwestern universities and worked as an advertising copywriter for many years before becoming a novelist. With more than two million copies of her books sold and translated in fifty countries, Martha Hall Kelly lives in Litchfield, Connecticut, and Hobe Sound, Florida.