Temperance's Trial: Virtues and Valor Series Part 1 (a WWII serialized story)

Hallee Bridgeman

Sep 2014 · Virtues and Valor Book 1 · Olivia Kimbrell Press

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The Third Reich Seeks to Extract the Information She Alone Knows

MARIE GILBERT and her elder brother flee from Vichy France after the Gestapo arrest her father for suspicion of aiding Jewish children to escape the oncoming fascist front. Once in London, Marie is recruited into an experimental all female cohort dubbed the Virtues, a collection of seven extraordinary women with highly specialized skills.

Known only by her code name, TEMPERANCE, she is trained to operate a wireless radio and returns to her beloved France. With a new identity, Marie clandestinely communicates vital intelligence directly back to Headquarters but unwillingly attracts the attention and apparent adoration of a handsome but ruthless Nazi officer, Oberleutnant LEOPOLD SCHÄFER.

As the H-hour to execute their daring mission draws ever closer, Marie plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with the unrelenting and merciless young Lieutenant Schäfer and the Nazi soldiers under his command.

TEMPERANCE’S TRIAL is part one of eight serialized novellas entitled the Virtues and Valor series.

Seven valorous women — different nationalities, ethnicities, and social backgrounds — come together as a team called the Virtues.

In 1941 Great Britain a special war department assembles an experimental and exclusively female cohort of combat operatives. Four willing spies, a wireless radio operator, an ingenious code breaker, and a fearless pilot are each hand-picked, recruited, and trained to initiate a daring mission in Occupied France. As plans are laid to engineer the largest prison break of Allied POWs in history, the Nazis capture the Virtues’ radio operator. It will take the cohesive teamwork of the rest of the women to save her life before Berlin breaks her and brings the force of the Third Reich to bear.

Some find love, some find vengeance, and some discover the kind of strength that lives in the human heart when all they can do is rely on each other and their shared belief. Courage, faith, and valor intersect but, in the end, one pays the ultimate price.

Introducing the Virtues and Valor series by Hallee Bridgeman. Eight serialized novellas, each inspired by real people and actual events, reveal the incredible story of amazing heroines facing the ultimate test of bravery.

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Ratings and reviews

This is the first novella in the Virtues and Valor Series. They are kind of like episodes so you are left with a cliff hanger, awaiting the next book. While this book if fictional it is written about actual people with accurate history, set in WWII. Marie Gilbert, code named, Temperance, is a wireless decoder undercover. While she must constantly find new places to set up to transmit and decode, she has to always be on her toes and maintain her undercover identity. When a Nazi officer, Oberleutnant Leopold Schafer, stumbles into her life will her identity be uncovered? Is he truly interested in her or does he have ulterior motives? When Temperance is arrested, will she be able to stand under interrogation? And what about Oberleutnant Schafer, is he what he seems? Hallee Bridgeman does a great job of getting your interest and keeping it. This is a quick read that will leave you waiting on the next chapter. I would recommend it, if you enjoy episode type christian historical books. I was given a copy of this book from bookfun.org for my honest opinion.

This novel is both beautiful and touching. I did not want it to end :) . It is refreshing indeed; and leaves one encouraged. An incredible Christian novel inspired by true events.

This book was amazing. It was a fictionalized story about the actions of a real person. It is well written and riveting. My only regret about this book is that it ended way too soon. I am anxiously looking forward to reading the next book in the series. I highly recommend this book. You will not be disappointed. I was given this book in exchange for my honest review.

About the author

HALLEE BRIDGEMAN is a best-selling Christian author who writes action-packed romantic suspense focusing on true to life characters facing real world problems. Her work has been described as everything from refreshing to heart-stopping exciting.
An Army brat turned Floridian, Hallee finally settled in central Kentucky with her family so she could enjoy the beautiful changing seasons. She enjoys the roller- coaster ride thrills that life with a National Guard husband, a teenage daughter, and two elementary age sons delivers.
When not penning novels, she blogs about all things cooking and homemaking at Hallee the Homemaker™ dot com (www.halleethehomemaker.com). Her passion for cooking spurred her to launch a whole food, real food "Parody" cookbook series. In addition to nutritious, Biblically grounded recipes, readers will find that each cookbook also confronts some controversial aspect of secular pop culture.
Hallee loves coffee, campy action movies, and regular date nights with her husband. Above all else, she loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength; has been redeemed by the blood of Christ; and relies on the presence of the Holy Spirit. She prays her work here on earth is a blessing to you and would love to hear from you. Contact information is on her website.