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The Raven and the Angel
A Novel of the Holocaust
2025
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Eighty years on, the voices of the Holocaust, the living and the dead, demand to be heard. Germany 1943. The first bombing of Leipzig, Germany, destroyed Lucy's place of employment, killed a good friend, and landed her in the lap of the Third Reich. Educated but naïve, Lucy is put to work as a translator for a top official in Hitler's government. What begins as a secret assignment translating American movie magazines leads her to overhearing more than is safe for her to know. As Lucy's eyes are opened to the corrupt empire's plan to wipe out an entire people with Hitler's "Final Solution," Allied bombers begin to reach further into the once-proud cities of Germany's heartland. She now risks her life to assist the anti-Nazi underground. Her dramatic journey brings her into the arms of her first love – the group's mysterious and elusive leader – and to the very doors of the gas chamber at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. At Ravensbrück Lucy is thrown in with thousands of women the Nazis have labeled "enemies of the Reich." Some, like Lucy, have conspired against the regime, but she comes to know many whose only crime is having the wrong nationality, or religion, or politics, or even sexual preference. Sometimes, the crime of having nothing more than bad luck. Despite the madness of the camp's campaign of abuse and slaughter, Lucy's determination to survive helps her lead an eclectic group of young women who fight the Nazis' murderous enterprise with courage and brains. They will stay in your heart long after you turn the final page.

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Christine Flynn
Author · 32 books
Award-winning author Christine Flynn was once told by a creative writing professor that she would save herself a lot of grief if she would limit her love of books to reading rather than attempting to write. Taking his words to heart, she dropped his class and wrote very little until fifteen years later when her husband gave her a Silhouette Romance which he'd received free with the gift-wrap of her mother's day present. She doesn't remember what he bought her (neither does her husband), but she remembers the book. As a person who had always found relationships fascinating, especially the often-complicated relationships between men and women, the writing she had always wanted to do had finally found its focus. Now considered "one of the genre's master storytellers" by Romantic Times Magazine, her work regularly appears on national best-seller lists, including USA Today and Waldenbooks.
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