The Beekeeper's Promise

An RNA Romantic Novel Award nominee.

Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Château Bellevue. The old château echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable woman's story, a story that could change the course of her summer--and her life.

In 1938, Eliane Martin tends beehives in the garden of the beautiful Château Bellevue. In its shadow she meets Mathieu Dubosq and falls in love for the first time, daring to hope that a happy future awaits. But France's eastern border is darkening under the clouds of war, and history has other plans for Eliane...

When she is separated from Mathieu in the chaos of German occupation, Eliane makes the dangerous decision to join the Resistance and fight for France's liberty. But with no end to the war in sight, her loyalty to Mathieu is severely tested.

From the bestselling author of Sea of Memories comes the story of two remarkable women, generations apart, who must use adversity to their advantage and find the resilience deep within.

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315 pages

Average rating: 7.33

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Anonymous
Nov 29, 2024
2/10 stars
I tried to like this book, really I did. Little more than halfway through it though and I just couldn't trudge through it any longer. I really don't understand its high marks by other reviewers. But to each their own. :)
melbeesue
Oct 16, 2023
6/10 stars
3.5 stars for me. I would have gone with 4 stars, but I didn't like how the past-present jumps went from chapter to chapter, when some of those chapters were just 1 page long. I enjoy past-present historical fiction, but it just felt choppy in this novel for some reason. In this case, I felt the historical narrative had more depth and breadth, and the modern story didn't have much going on. In fact, I'm not sure the modern story really added much to this particular story at all, but that's just my take.

The historical story was WWII related, which I enjoyed immensely.

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