Kate is the USA Today bestselling author of numerous historical and contemporary novels. Writing as Katharine Swartz, she crafts time-slip novels set in the village of Goswell. Her fiction delves into the intricacies of human relationships and deep emotions, with a strong focus on character development and atmospheric settings. She is drawn to compelling narratives driven by well-realized characters, creating stories that resonate with readers.
The story delves into the complex emotions surrounding a pivotal moment of decision-making involving Anna and Alice. Tension builds as Anna grapples with her reluctance to part with Alice, revealing deep-seated feelings and the weight of attachment. This moment encapsulates themes of love, loss, and the struggle between personal desires and the needs of others, highlighting the emotional stakes involved in their relationship. The narrative captures the intensity of the characters' connections and the internal conflicts they face.
Beginning in Berlin, 1936, with the young and privileged Liesel Scholz and her friendship with Rosa that leads her to try to protect Rosa and her family from the new government's rules, and later in 1946 Frankfurt, when American captain Sam Houghton wonders about the secrets that afflict his interpreter Anna
"1938, Salzburg. A powerful story of hope, forbidden love, and incredible courage, about three sisters who will risk everything -- even their own lives -- as part of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Austria."--Back cover
"Nazi-occupied Vienna, 1940: A young nurse finds herself with the chance to save innocent children. An unmissable and heartbreaking story--based on devastating real events--about tragedy, hope and courage in the face of impossible odds. "These children, who the Nazis don't even see as human, these children are innocent. And, Hannah, if you have the chance to save even one of them, you know what you have to do. Even if it puts your own life at risk." As bombs fall over Europe, Hannah Stern is a twenty-seven-year-old nurse, who is just trying to survive. When she takes a position at Vienna's esteemed psychiatric hospital, Am Steinhof, she thinks it will take her away from the danger. Her estranged half-brother has arranged the job for her on the condition that she must take his son, Willi there too. He insists it's a place where Willi will be safe. And Hannah soon forms a close bond with the sweet, fragile child in her care. At first the hospital seems like a safe haven--a beautiful, airy, spacious place of healing and recovery. But the hospital is a place of secrets. And they are darker than Hannah could ever have imagined. Children, ones just like Willi, are disappearing--not to be healed as promised, but taken somewhere else. Somewhere terrible. And when Willi's own life comes under threat--in spite of her half-brother's position of power in the Nazi military--Hannah must overcome her own fears and act. Then she discovers one of the other nurses is also trying to help patients escape, and Hannah becomes determined to help in any way she can. But she is only one person up against the enemy. And to save even just one life from the grip of the Nazis, she must risk her own..."-- Amazon.com
"You love your father with all your heart. But what if he’s not who you think he is? What if he’s kept an unforgiveable secret from you his whole life? Libby Trent believes she knows the difference between right and wrong. But everything changes when she finds out about a man named Hans Brenner, a Nazi who escaped Germany after the Second World War. A war criminal who has lived his whole life in hiding. Because the man suspected of being Hans Brenner is Libby’s own beloved father. The sweetest, gentlest man she knows. Who raised her alone, who lives in her family home. Who cares for and watches over Libby’s own children. When Libby finds a secret box in her father’s bedroom, she knows it might contain evidence. But does she dare open it, if it could prove her father guilty of the most heinous crimes in history? Because if she finds evidence, she won’t just have to choose between right and wrong, she’ll have to choose whether to betray her own father…"--Back cover
The story of two wives--told over 70 years apart--tell a story about courage, finding a home, and how an unexpected connection can change your life forever. England, 1939: When Alice marries kind-hearted vicar David on the eve of war, it means leaving her old life behind and moving into the draughty vicarage in the beautiful, remote village of Goswell, Cumbria. Though desperately homesick, Alice is determined to make a new life for herself and her husband. Now: When Jane and her family move to the small village of Goswell where her husband grew up, she's afraid she might have made a huge mistake. Their new home--in what had once been the vicarage--feels a million miles from their previous fast-paced life in New York City, and Jane struggles with empty days that seem lonely and purposeless. -- Adapted from publisher's description
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