Born to a French mother and an English father, Charlotte Bray has always felt like an outsider in her small Cornish fishing village. She spends her days on her father’s fishing boat, helping to feed a nation at war.

But the war brings devastation, and it’s not long until it reaches Charlotte’s front door. Her world is rocked and forever changed by tragedy.

With nothing left to lose, she accepts a mysterious invitation to work for the War Office as a spy. Nothing is as it seems, and she finds herself in Nazi-occupied Paris with a new identity.

Charlotte begins working under the surly but handsome Frenchman Pierre Lesieur. But do his allegiances lie elsewhere?

With the Gestapo at every corner and networks falling all around her, Charlotte feels danger closing in.

And nothing is more dangerous than her growing feelings for Pierre.

Charlotte has been taught how to defend herself from the enemy. But not how to protect her heart . .

The Paris Affair is set during the Second World War and tells the story of a Cornish young woman Charlotte who after her French mother died began working in fishing with her father.

Charlotte receives a mysterious invitation from the war office. They would like her to work as a spy based in Paris, France under the command of half Frenchman, half German Pierre Lesieur. However, it isn’t long before Charlotte realises that someone within the group is a traitor and could it be Pierre, a man she has found herself falling for?

The Paris Affair is an engaging and exhilarating read. Our protagonist Charlotte is well-developed and realistic and you’ll soon find yourself rooting for her and wanting her to succeed in her work.

The pace of the novel is quite fast which for me was spot on as I hate slow-burn stories. The setting and historical aspects have been well researched and thought out and I felt like I was in 1940s France.

Overall, this was a book I enjoyed the whole way through. I loved the drama and the romance just as much as the twists and turns that were ever-present.

Victoria Cornwall grew up on a farm in Cornwall and can trace her Cornish roots as far back as the 18th century. It is this background and heritage which is the inspiration for her Cornish based novels.

Following a fulfilling twenty-five year career as a nurse, a change in profession finally allowed her the time to write. She initially self-published two novels, Old Sins Long Shadows and The Gossamer Trail under the name B.D.Hawkey. In 2016, award winning publisher, Choc Lit, acquired both novels as part of a four book deal. Old Sins Long Shadows is now published under a new title, The Captain’s Daughter, and The Gossamer Trail has been released under the new title The Daughter of River Valley.

Victoria is married and has two grown up children. She likes to read and write historical fiction with a strong background story, but at its heart is the unmistakable emotion, even pain, of loving someone.

She is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association.