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(Previously published by Bookouture as The Soldier's Girl.)
"Could you kill a Nazi, Miss Lake? Or, in the moment of killing, would you remember his mother's grief -- and let yourself be killed instead?"
It is the most extraordinary of job interviews, for the most extraordinary of jobs. In the final year of WWII, Sibyl, an English nurse, volunteers to help free Alsace -- the beloved province of her childhood -- from Nazi control. Her mission: to train and lead a band of resistance fighters, men commanded by Jacques, once her closest friend and now a hardened leader of the underground.
But nothing has prepared Sibyl for Major Wolfgang von Haagen, the German officer in charge of Colmar. Believing her to be a cobbler's assistant, von Haagen begins to care for her -- and to confide in her. London quickly sees an opportunity, ordering Sibyl to nurture his affections and turn them into weapons. Reluctantly, she becomes the bait in a treacherous honeytrap, caught between loyalty to her cause and the stirrings of her conscience. For von Haagen is no ruthless brute; and his love is true.
As Hitler demands Colmar be held at any cost, Sibyl must choose between deception and truth, love and betrayal, duty and survival. One little misstep could doom not only her mission -- but the fate of an entire province.
Review bt The Historical Fiction Company, extract:
Starting in France on June 1, 1944, we are taken back in time and directly into a scene that pulls you deep into the story. But this is only the intro. For the real beginning of the story, we will go back even further, to September, 1929.
Before delivering its most devastating blows, Soldier's Girl is the type of historical fiction that subtly disarms the reader. Sharon Maas's book, which takes place in the tense last year of World War II, is both a psychological analysis, a wartime thriller, and a very human love story that defies simple solutions.
What starts out as a resistance task quickly turns into a moral trial that has the reader and the heroine face the price of love, loyalty, and survival in a world split apart by fear and ideology.
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