A sister's duty and an uncertain friendship snare a young woman in a secret WW 2 operation
Independently Published
June 2025
On Sale: May 26, 2025
Featuring: Bekka
333 pages ISBN: B0F7R6RBJH EAN: 9798281440486 Kindle: B0F2GRS888 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Forty minutes by foot, Bekka was calculating. Fifteen on my bicycle, three in Papa’s car. The distance to the border. The time before the German army might arrive.
It is April, 1940. Bekka, a Jewish university student is expected to accompany her young brother out of German-occupied Denmark with the help of Peder – a childhood playmate now living in the Faroe Islands. But there’s a problem. Bekka will not abandon a closer friend, Ditte to the brutality of a Nazi prison, even though it means putting her own life at risk, and forces a harrowing escape.
The isolated Faroes, now occupied by the British, should be a safe refuge. Instead, Bekka finds herself at the centre of a deadly search for information of vital importance to Germany and Britain alike.
Her heartbreaking discovery of how events at home and in the Faroes are connected is a compelling, fast-paced story of one woman’s strength in adversity, tested loyalty, and bittersweet love.
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