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Ireland, 1879. Maura Doyle has always felt she was meant for more than her life as a poverty-stricken farmer’s daughter in County Laois could provide. Her father has arranged for her to marry into a wealthier local family, but she has more interest in her neighbor, Joseph O’Malley. Forced to leave school at age 16, she takes a full-time job as a maid in the local landlord’s mansion after a family tragedy. But the arrival of the lord’s son upends her role in the house and the equilibrium of the entire community.

Amy is writing her grandmother’s biography when she receives news that upends her entire existence. Still in shock, she flies to the south of France to hear the next part of her grandmother’s wartime story. Faced with choices that will alter the path of her life, Amy finds that she needs her grandmother’s advice more than ever, and that the older woman is determined that her granddaughter not repeat the mistakes she made in the past.

It is 1943, and WW2 is raging. After parting with her husband, Michael, in London, Monika Ritter is sent to the Swiss city of Bern to begin her career with the OSS. Bern is an international hub for the secret war being fought between the spies of America, Britain, and their counterparts in the German secret service. There, her new boss, the spymaster Allen Dulles, introduces her to a mysterious German double agent who might prove to be an invaluable asset.

Trapped inside southern Germany, Monika Ritter goes to the one person she can trust—her cousin, Sarah Graf, a woman scarred by her opposition to the Nazis. Despite taking refuge in Sarah’s house, Monika is determined to fulfill her mission and meet a potentially invaluable asset in the intelligence war against the Nazis, a man who could change the face of the entire war. After a daring mission to meet the new contact, Monika must escape Hitler’s Reich in the only way she can, over the alpine mountain ranges that separate Germany from Austria and Switzerland.

From the bestselling author of White Rose, Black Forest comes a page-turning epic of adventure, suspense, and romance set against the rich and ruthless backdrop of the Klondike gold rush.

After spending a blissful few weeks with her husband, Michael, in Bern, Switzerland, Monika is assigned to return to Berlin, the most dangerous city in the world. Her mission for the OSS is to meet and collect information from the asset she cultivated, a man with access to a treasure trove of confidential Nazi documents. Sarah volunteers to go with her, and despite Monika’s protests, the two cousins travel to the heart of the Reich together.

Tra "La vita è bella" e "Schindler's list", un audiolibro indimenticabile. Una storia d'amore e coraggio che va oltre qualsiasi convenzione. Niente può dividere Christopher e Rebecca: non i genitori violenti di lei e neanche il fidanzato che lei stessa ha portato a casa dopo essere fuggita in Inghilterra. Poi scoppia la seconda guerra mondiale e i nazisti invadono l'isola di Jersey: Rebecca viene deportata in Europa verso l'orribile destino prospettato dalla “soluzione finale” di Hitler. Christopher però non si rassegna e decide di arruolarsi nelle SS.