normandy (france)

"When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ismael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark mystery is about to unfold, involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past"--.

In the weeks leading up to D-Day, an American intellegence officer must protect the secret of the invasion, and save the woman he loves.

Tells the story of the Allied invasion of Normandy and shows how each of the armies mirrored its own nation's values.