Increasingly wary of her father’s
genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this
trip with him to Germany—in the summer of 1939—will be her
last. But a cryptic letter from her estranged friend,
begging Rachel for help, changes everything. Married to SS
officer Gerhardt Schlick, Kristine sees the dark tides
turning and fears her husband views their daughter, Amelie,
deaf since birth, as a blight on his Aryan bloodline.
Once courted by Schlick, Rachel knows he’s as dangerous as
the swastikas that hang like ebony spiders from every
government building in Berlin. She fears her father’s files
may hold answers about Hitler’s plans for others, like
Amelie, whom the regime deems “unworthy of life.” She risks
searching his classified documents only to uncover shocking
secrets about her own history and a family she’s never known.
Now hunted by the SS, Rachel turns to Jason Young—a driven,
disarming American journalist and unlikely ally—who connects
her to the resistance and to controversial theologian
Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Forced into hiding, Rachel’s every
ideal is challenged as she and Jason walk a knife’s edge,
risking their lives—and asking others to do the same—for
those they barely know but come to love.
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