The Lantern Keeper of Virelle: When Secrets Burn, Love Refuses to Die

By Sarah Butcher

Everything they loved was under watch. Everything they risked was for the truth.
Virelle, France. 1942. A quiet coastal town where silence is survival, and secrets are deadlier than guns.
lo se Moreau doesn't look like a spy. That's the point. Her lantern shop is a cover. The codes she hides could kill-if they fall into the wrong hands. She translates silence into action. But her heart? That's the one part she still can't decode.
Luc Dervaux is sent to protect the mission. Stoic. Reluctant. Trained to kill, but not to feel. He expected traitors. Not her. Not someone who stirs up the ghosts he buried years ago. Not someone who listens too closely when the world demands silence.
And Agn s? Her past is littered with burnt bridges and buried knives. She wants freedom for France-but not at the cost of lo se's life. Or her own heart. Because when war forces you to choose between duty and desire, someone always bleeds.
This isn't a story wrapped up in neat endings.
This is for readers who love WWII historical romance with espionage, for those who crave a slow-burn spy love story with danger, and for anyone who asks, What would I do if the person I loved could ruin everything?
If you've ever searched for historical fiction like All the Light We Cannot See, romantic thrillers with fierce emotional pull, or books about women's untold resistance in Nazi-occupied France, you're exactly where you need to be.
Because here, in Virelle, love burns slower than gunpowder-but it still explodes.
And when the codes are cracked, when the lies collapse-
Someone will still be left holding the match.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FJ8SMGMB
• ISBN13: 9798293351138
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"