Book Description

1944, Germany. Louise struggles down from the cattle car, stumbling on the platform as guards shout harsh threats to keep moving. Blinking at the rows of terrified women, hope drains from her heart as her sister’s warnings ring in her ears…Passing through the foreboding camp gates, Louise is pointed one way with the other women branded as political prisoners. As she trips after them, her possessions stripped away, all she can think about are the faces of the people she’s left behind—her sister Marie, and the man she’s barely had a chance to love yet, William.When she started working with the resistance to smuggle allied soldiers out of occupied Paris, she knew she was risking everything. That if she was caught, she could be sent somewhere like this. But she couldn’t have known her work would lead her to fall in love. Hiding American airforceman William in her basement, she’d gotten to know him, sharing stories over candlelight, fingers brushing and heart opening.But in trying to keep the love of her life safe, she’d been torn away from him anyway. Standing awaiting the next order, freezing cold and trembling in terror, her mind turns over the horrors she’s heard await her and the women softly crying beside her.Will she ever hug her sister and look into William’s bright blue eyes again? And will the fighting spirit that first led her to the resistance allow her to find a way to survive the darkest place she’s ever faced?A heart-wrenching, emotional and inspiring World War Two page-turner about sacrifice in the name of love, and the power of hope in the darkest of places. Fans of The Nightingale, The Midwife of Auschwitz and The Choice won’t be able to put this down.