All the Ways We Said Goodbye

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The heiress, the Resistance fighter, and the widow—three women connected by a magnificent hotel. In 1914 France, as war erupts, Aurelie finds herself trapped with her father at their ancestral estate, which the Germans have commandeered. There, she rekindles a connection with Maximilian Von Sternburg, a German officer she met during her debutante days. Their friendship blossoms into love, but betrayal forces Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz, where her estranged American heiress mother awaits, leading to unforeseen consequences. Fast forward to 1942, Daisy Villon, raised by her spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, grapples with her life in occupied Paris alongside her husband, a Nazi collaborator. Initially hesitant to join her grandmother's Resistance efforts, she becomes a courier for a forger known as Legrand, creating identity papers for those in peril. As Daisy plunges deeper into the underground network, she uncovers a devastating family secret that compels her to confront her past and make a heart-wrenching betrayal. In 1964, Barbara "Babs" Langford mourns her late husband, Kit, whose life was shadowed by a mysterious figure, La Fleur. When lawyer Andrew "Drew" Bowdoin arrives to investigate La Fleur, Babs joins him on a journey through Paris and the Ritz, leading to unexpected revelations and emotional discoveries.