Her Darkest Hour is the story of two families closely connected and living in Colmar in the Alsace region during the Second World War. Nazis take over the town and Marie-Claire finds herself on the opposite side as everyone close to her when she takes a job as a personal secretary to a senior Nazi. Marie-Claire’s mother runs a vineyard at her family chateau, her younger daughter Victoire is desperate to join friends fighting against the German Forces, but she is only a teenager and has to look after the animals and the Jewish mother and daughter they have hiding in a cellar underneath their chateau.

Marie-Claire is beautiful and knows it. She’s always been in love with childhood friend Jacques. Jacques is in the resistance and that as well as watching out for those working with him is his focus. He rebuffed Marie-Claire’s awkward attempts to seduce him a few years before and when he does it again she is heartbroken and makes a decision that will take her life into a much darker place than she could ever have imagined.

This is a story of friendship, families, the horror of war and how far people will go for their cause or to survive. I enjoyed Marie-Claire’s story was intrigued by Jacques and would like to thank Bookouture and NetGalley for an ARC copy in return for an honest review.