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Increasingly wary of her fathers genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him to Germanyin the summer of 1939will be her last. But a cryptic letter from her estranged friend, begging Rachel for help, changes everything. Married to SS officer Gerhardt Schlick, Kristine sees the dark tides turning and fears her husband views their daughter, Amelie, deaf since birth, as a blight on his Aryan bloodline.
Once courted by Schlick, Rachel knows hes as dangerous as the swastikas that hang like ebony spiders from every government building in Berlin. She fears her fathers files may hold answers about Hitlers plans for others, like Amelie, whom the regime deems unworthy of life. She risks searching his classified documents only to uncover shocking secrets about her own history and a family shes never known.
Now hunted by the SS, Rachel turns to Jason Younga driven, disarming American journalist and unlikely allywho connects her to the resistance and to controversial theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Forced into hiding, Rachels every ideal is challenged as she and Jason walk a knifes edge, risking their livesand asking others to do the samefor those they barely know but come to love.