Eva Traube Abrams, a Florida librarian, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years - a book she recognizes as The book of lost names. The religious tome in the photograph, a French text thought to have been stolen by the Nazis, contains a mysterious code that researchers can't decipher. Only Eva holds the answer - but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?