The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel is a stunning World War II novel about a young woman who joins the French Resistance and creates a secret book to preserve the identities of Jewish children she helps save.

Eva Traube is a talented forger living in hiding in a small French mountain town. When she's recruited to help forge documents for Jewish children fleeing the Nazis, she begins a dangerous mission that could cost her everything. Working alongside a mysterious fellow forger, Eva creates false papers that give these children new identities and a chance at survival.

But Eva does something extraordinary. In a hidden book, she records the children's real names in a secret code, preserving their true identities for a future she hopes will come. Decades later, an elderly Eva sees the book in a news article and must confront the past she's tried to forget, including the fate of the man she loved and the children she saved.