1944.
Nineteen-year-old Hedy can't bear her country's neutrality in the face of the ultimate evil. This is not the Switzerland she loves, and she realises she cannot stand by without acting any longer. She joins a group smuggling Jewish children through the forest from France to refugee camps in Geneva. It's dangerous work - there are German patrols everywhere - but finally Hedy feels she is doing something worthwhile.
Then one night in the forest she stumbles across a wounded American airman. Second Lieutenant Samuel Reardon was dropping supplies to the French resistance when his plane crashed. Despite the danger it will bring to her family, Hedy can't leave Samuel lost and injured, so she hides him in her father's hut.
As Hedy and Samuel grow closer, so the dangers of their resistance work loom ever closer, and soon the pair must make the ultimate choice that will tear them apart.
2015.
Nineteen-year-old Gina looks at her grandmother's papery hands and wonders how much time they have left together. Since her mother died, Mamie Hedy is all she has left. But then her grandmother reveals a shocking secret that takes them back to her home in the Swiss mountains, looking for answers that time never forgot.
A stunningly beautiful and heartfelt WWII novel about the power of love, family, and learning from our mistakes for future generations.
