The Netherlands, 1939-40. Helen Smit is determined to be a teacher. She’s about to start at the local university to make her dream come true. Helen decided to get out of town and it just maybe a trip to change her life. Erik Minger works for a local grocery store. He’ll eventually become a partner. On a trip to a boat race with his younger brother, his life may just change his life. As the German’s invade and life gets more difficult as time passes Helen and Erik’s lives will change in ways they never expected as their romance blooms. They’ll make decisions that will put them in danger and take them on a dangerous journey.
Lauralee Bliss’s ESCAPE FROM AMSTERDAM. Is the seventh book in the Heroines of World War II series. A chance meeting on a trip outside of Amsterdam brings two strangers together just before the invasion of the Netherlands by Germany. Even though the uncertainty of the invasion looms, a romance blooms and becomes more. As atrocities are revealed and the rumors seem to be true, citizens of Amsterdam have to make decisions on what they’ll do. Helen’s brother sides with the resistance early on.
ESCAPE FROM AMSTERDAM shows life in an occupied country and has some real-life heroes thrown into the mix. Helen and Erik's decision doesn’t only affect them but the people around them as well. With lives in danger and an immediate threat to some children, these two will have to make an on-the-spot decision and figure out their plan as they go.
ESCAPE FROM AMSTERDAM by Lauralee Bliss has a slow start but as the romance gets more serious between Helen and Erik and the invasion happens, the fear of what happens will ratchet up. The danger intensifies the more that Erik and Helen learn of what is happening in Amsterdam. They’re appalled by it all and rely on God to help them figure out how to survive. They’ll take a stand that will put them and their families in danger. A satisfactory and happy ending with the characters having a mixture of emotions and finding out about the people they care for who were left behind.
Helen Smit believed she was called by God to become a teacher. Little does she know that her care for kids will take a drastic turn for survival when the Germans occupy Amsterdam and Jewish children and parents begin to be deported. Now all she can think of is helping all the kids escape before it's too late.
Erik Misman's newfound love for Helen is tested when he joins a plot to help move Jewish children to a safe place in the countryside. If danger can foster a closer bond with Helen a/nd save the lives of the little ones, he will do it all. But a German patrol that stumbles upon the farm where they are hiding with three children and a soldier who takes an unexpected interest in Helen, could well destroy their plans for safety and love.
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