The Weight of Mercy

France, September 1941. 

She pours the coffee. She wipes the counter. She hears everything, and no one sees her at all.

Simone Fournier is a café owner in a small town in occupied France—a nobody, the last woman anyone would suspect. Which is exactly why the Resistance made her a letterbox, and exactly why she survives when the network around her is torn apart. When a young British agent arrives to rebuild from the ashes, Simone becomes her quietest, most invisible asset: the woman at the edge of every room, remembering.

But invisibility has a price, and the war keeps raising it. From a café in Valençay to a cell in Bourges, from the maquis camps of the Limousin to a burning foundry in the dark, Simone is drawn deeper than a nobody was ever meant to go—until the Gestapo take her, and Major Steiner learns that the surest way to break a woman is not through her own pain, but through the people she loves.

What she does to protect them will save some and damn others. And when the network she helped build begins to fall, only Simone will know why.

The Weight of Mercy retells the events of The Weight of Silence and The Weight of Command through the eyes of the one person history was never meant to record—the invisible woman who kept the secrets and became the worst one of all.

The Weight of Mercy is a companion novel and can be read as a standalone.

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