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In the New York Times-Bestselling writer of A Secret Stored and Sarah’s Crucial comes an absorbing new book about one woman’s opposition during an époque that shook London to its very core. Paris, Portugal: 1860’s. Countless homes are now being razed, entire communities reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a number of large scale renovations that will completely alter the facial skin of old London, moulding it into a “modern city.” The reforms will remove decades of history—but while in the middle of the tumult, one-woman will have a stand. Rose Bazelet is decided to combat the devastation of her home before very end; as others flee, she limits her claim within the cellar of the old house on rue Childebert, overlooking the looks of change that come closer and closer every day. Trying to overcome the isolation of her everyday life, she starts to create characters to Armand, her beloved late husband.