France, 1942.

She parachuted into occupied territory with a false name, forged papers, and orders to build a resistance network from nothing.

Madeleine Gautier is Agent 4429-one of the first female SOE operatives to drop into Nazi-occupied France. Working alongside a small team of agents and French civilians, she helps construct what will become the largest British intelligence network in the country. But as the network grows, so do the risks. Informants lurk in the shadows. The Gestapo tightens its grip. And the very success that makes them dangerous also makes them visible.

When the arrests begin, Madeleine must run-through a collapsing network, across a hostile country, toward a reckoning she cannot escape.

The Weight of Courage is a prequel novella to The Weight of Silence, inspired by the real women of SOE Section F who were sent into occupied Europe and expected to disappear.

She was never supposed to be remembered. This is her story.