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Crown
February 2012
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Featuring: Elsie Schmidt; Reba Adams
304 pages
ISBN: 0307460185
EAN: 9780307460189
Kindle: B004W3IEI6
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Suspense | Thriller | Historical
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her
first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and
her family have been protected from the worst of the terror
and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking
Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish boy
arrives on Elsie’s doorstep in the dead of night on
Christmas Eve, Elsie understands that opening the door would
put all she loves in danger. Sixty years later, in El Paso, Texas, Reba Adams is trying
to file a feel-good Christmas piece for the local magazine.
Reba is perpetually on the run from memories of a turbulent
childhood, but she’s been in El Paso long enough to get a
full-time job and a fiancé, Riki Chavez. Riki, an agent with
the U.S. Border Patrol, finds comfort in strict rules and
regulations, whereas Reba feels that lines are often
blurred. Reba’s latest assignment has brought her to the shop of an
elderly baker across town. The interview should take a few
hours at most, but the owner of Elsie’s German Bakery is no
easy subject. Reba finds herself returning to the bakery
again and again, anxious to find the heart of the story. For
Elsie, Reba’s questions are a stinging reminder of darker
times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of
WWII. And as Elsie, Reba, and Riki’s lives become more
intertwined, all are forced to confront the uncomfortable
truths of the past and seek out the courage to forgive.
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