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Isa de Smit was raised in the vibrant, glittering world of her parents’ small art gallery in Amsterdam, a hub of beauty, creativity, and expression, until the Nazi occupation wiped the color from her city’s palette. The “degenerate” art of the Gallery de Smit is confiscated, the artists in hiding or deported, and her best friend, Truus, flees to join the shadowy Dutch resistance. And masterpiece by masterpiece, the Nazis are buying and stealing her country’s heritage, feeding the Third Reich’s ravenous appetite for culture and art.

So, when the unpaid taxes threaten her beloved but empty gallery, Isa decides to make the Nazis pay. She sells them a fake—a Rembrandt copy drawn by her talented father—a sale that sets Isa perilously close to the second most hated class of people in Amsterdam: the collaborators. Isa sells her beautiful forgery to none other than Hitler himself, and on the way to the auction, discovers that Truus is part of a resistance ring working to smuggle Jewish babies out of Amsterdam.

But Truus cannot save more children without money. A lot of money. And Isa thinks she knows how to get it. One more forgery, a copy of an exquisite Vermeer, and the Nazis will pay for the rescue of the very children they are trying annihilate. To make the sale, Isa will need to learn the artistry of a master forger, before the children can be deported, and before she can be outed as a collaborator. And she finds an unlikely source to help her do it: a young Nazi soldier, a blackmailer and thief of Dutch art, who now says he wants to desert the German army.

Worth is not always seen from the surface, and a fake can be difficult to spot. Both in art, and in people. Based on the true stories of Han Van Meegeren, a master art forger who sold fakes to Hermann Goering, and Johann van Hulst, credited with saving 600 Jewish children from death in Amsterdam, bestselling author Sharon Cameron weaves a gorgeously evocative thriller, simmering with twists, that looks for the forgotten color of beauty, even in an ugly world.

Announcing the re-release of my first two novels!

Available everywhere August 2, 2022

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paperback release:

january 3, 2023

Bank St. College of Education Best YA Fiction of 2022

BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS, YALSA

JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD GOLD STANDARD SELECTION

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Release date OCTOBER 5, 2021

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Reese Whitherspoon Book Club December 2020 Pick.

THE LIGHT IN HIDDEN PLACES is the REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB DECEMBER 2020 PICK!

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For more information on the life of Stefania Podgorska, go to thestefifoundation.org

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Thank you, School and Library Journal and Bookpage for such beautiful reviews of THE LIGHT IN HIDDEN PLACES!

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#4 ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST!

We are pleased to announce 18 foreign editions (and counting!) of THE LIGHT IN HIDDEN PLACES!

Poland, Israel, Germany, UK/Australia/NZ, Belgium/Netherlands, Italy, France, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Croatia, Lithuania, Slovakia. Thank you to the amazing Scholastic foreign rights team!

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Interview with Helena Podgorska from THE LIGHT IN HIDDEN PLACES
Video Interview for Kobiece, the Polish publishers of THE LIGHT IN HIDDEN PLACES
Conversation with Sharon Cameron and Ed Burzminski (son of Stefania Podgorska), moderated by Julie Greenberg of Congregation Micah at Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN 2/29/2020