Emily Higgs

In Nazi-occupied France, 1943, twenty-year-old Sophie Goldstein's desperate escape from a deportation raid ends in capture. Imprisoned in the brutal Freiburg internment camp, she expects only cruelty from her captors-until she encounters SS Kommandant Karl Wagner, a man whose iron discipline masks a conscience slowly awakening to the atrocities he oversees. As Sophie's fierce will to survive clashes with Karl's growing doubt about his orders, an impossible connection forms between them-one that could mean salvation or destruction for them both.
In a world where love itself is an act of resistance, their forbidden bond becomes a dangerous gamble against the machinery of genocide. When evidence of mass deportations surfaces and the camp's true purpose is revealed, Sophie and Karl must choose: preserve their secret at any cost, or risk everything to save the lives hanging in the balance. In the shadow of history's greatest evil, can love triumph-or will it become another casualty of war?isiisiisiisiisi