The Black Chapel

In a quiet French village scarred by Nazi occupation, a chapel burns-and with it, the last place where truth was whispered.

Lucien Moreau never meant to become a keeper of secrets. But when a Jewish child is born in the tunnels beneath his chapel, he is drawn into a web of quiet resistance, betrayal, and unbearable choices. As Saint-R幦y folds under the weight of war, Lucien begins recording names-of the lost, the hidden, the betrayed-hoping that memory might survive even when people do not.

Years later, a girl named Agn鋊 returns to the chapel's ruins, holding only fragments: a photograph, a folded letter, and a name she never asked for. What she finds buried beneath the stone may rewrite everything the village tried to forget.

Told in haunting, lyrical prose, The Black Chapel is a deeply emotional World War II novel about silence, sacrifice, and the legacies we choose to carry. For readers of The Book Thief, All the Light We Cannot See, and The Nightingale, this is a story of how memory is passed-not just in words, but in the spaces between them.