The Lives Left Behind
Four stories are tied by the invisible bonds of fate. When the truth is finally set free and their stories laid bare, can love and redemption find their way back through generations of secrets and hate?
Four stories are tied by the invisible bonds of fate. When the truth is finally set free and their stories laid bare, can love and redemption find their way back through generations of secrets and hate?
Identical twins Maggie and Tillie are thriving in 1940s London. Waitresses in one of the city’s finest institutions with budding romances, the war could not feel farther away. Then, the Blitz begins. And everything changes.
Nineteen-year-old twins Ania and Michalina are as different as two sisters can be. But when tragedy strikes and World War II threatens to overturn their carefully composed lives, the sisters’ bond is put to the test.
The past may not be done with us. What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WW2, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother's confidante - and Hitler's lover - and untangles a web of long-buried secrets. "Historical fiction that reads like memoir." Philadelphia Inquirer
Strong-willed and effervescent Hattie Logan escapes her privileged family to become a Pinkerton’s spy for the Union during America’s Civil War. Posing as the wife of a beloved courier, she wrestles with a secret that threatens them both. A heartrending novel of courage and resilience inspired by the true story of a female Civil War spy.
When her murderous father escapes from an institution, a young girl is forced to flee to safety with secretive pickpocket Anna. Disguised as a boy called Viktor, and drawn into Anna's mysterious activities, she is catapulted into a strange investigation, and learns that Anna may be able to help her uncover the mystery of her mother's disappearance.