![]() Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous.An Amazon Charts bestseller. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman's true identity. Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family's isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. Franka and the airman (no spoilers here!) were both terrific characters. I especially liked that it looked at how people with disabilities were also targeted by Hitler’s regime during the war. This was brilliantly done, with perfect touches of flashback and action. But with nearly everyone around them suspicious and calling in to report to the Gestapo anything that doesn’t seem right, can they survive long enough to get out? But Franka can’t tell him who she really is… and he doesn’t trust her either. But when she gets him back to her cabin, he begins crying out in English in his sleep. When she finds a downed airman in the snowy woods with two broken legs, her choices are to let him die, or to rescue him even though he’s a nazi soldier. She has a tragic past and has no one left. A historical set in the black forest of Germany during WW2, Franka is a former resistance member who has recently been released from jail. Hunted by the Gestapo, can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever? … ( more) Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous. ![]()
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