Harlequin MIRA
September 2014
On Sale: August 26, 2014
352 pages ISBN: 0778315967 EAN: 9780778315964 Kindle: B00IB5BSL6 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
A stirring novel about the tumult of first love in a time of
war and the unbearable choices that could tear sisters
apart, from the celebrated author of The Kommandant's Girl
Life is a constant struggle for the impoverished
eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three
young siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi
occupation. The constant threat of arrest for even the most
minor infraction has made everyone in their village a spy,
and turned neighbor against neighbor. Though rugged,
independent Helena and pretty, gentle Ruth couldn't be more
different, they are staunch allies in protecting their
family from the threats and hardships the war brings closer
to their doorstep with each passing day.
Then Helena discovers an Allied paratrooper stranded outside
their small mountain village, wounded, but alive. Risking
the safety of herself and her family, she hides Sam—a
Jew—but Helena's concern for the American grows into
something much deeper and the dream of a life beyond the
mountains beckons. Defying the perils that render a future
together all but impossible, Sam and Helena make plans for
the family to flee. But Helena is forced to contend with the
jealousy her choices have sparked in Ruth, culminating in a
singular act of betrayal that endangers them all—and setting
in motion a chain of events that will reverberate across
continents and decades.
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