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?Ī Goodreads Choice Award Semifinalist, Historical Fiction Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous. 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.
Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. 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. Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous.In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.ĭecember 1943. 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. 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.ĭecember 1943.
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