Left her thin and fragile, a scrap of paper crumpled in an indifferent first, discarded, and left to dissolved underfoot. And it’s by such actions that you tip the scales in our favor.

To all the people he will go on to help in the months to come. Your actions today will make a difference.Yet both fear that every passing day brings them closer to being torn apart. The more he learns of Nina, the more his suspicions grow-and with them his determination to exact revenge.Īs Nina and Nico come to know each other, their feelings deepen, transforming their relationship into much more than a charade. Even worse, their distrust is shared by a local Nazi official with a vendetta against Nico. And to keep her safe and protect secrets of his own, Nico and Nina must convince prying eyes they are happily married and in love.īut farm life is not easy for a cultured city girl who dreams of becoming a doctor like her father, and Nico’s provincial neighbors are wary of this soft and educated woman they do not know. Rather than risk a perilous escape across the mountains, Nina will pose as his new bride.

A moral and just man, he could not stand by when the fascists and Nazis began taking innocent lives. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to run his family’s farm. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive-to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson-a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II. Genre: Historical Romance Fiction | My Review Rating: ♥♥♥♥ģ84 Pages | Published: Januby William Morrow If you buy from my links, at no additional cost to you, I get a small commission so I can buy even more books to review! See full disclosure here.

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