Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent in Munich in 1938. She becomes frustrated when her chauvinistic boss keeps heavily editing her articles, and giving her "softball" assignment. During one of those assignments she meets Peter Lang, an American graduate student, teaching at the University of Munich and working on his dissertation in linguistics. Peter is disillusioned by the depression in America, and sees the progress Germany has made since the end of WWI. Evelyn is frustrated that he refuses to see the injustices perpetrated against the Jews until they hit too close to home. As violence escalates, they both realize that it is no longer safe for them in Germany, and decide to make a desperate escape. Evil forces pursue them, and they learn to rely on each other to make it through.
This is the second book by Sundin that I have listened too, and it was also very good. I think Sarah has earned her way onto my exclusive list of Clean Romance Writers. (congrats, Sarah!) I appreciated that in this book Sundin suggests why Germans would have been interested in Hitler and also how ex-patriot Americans could have been caught up in what was happening in Germany in the 30s on both sides of the issue. I think she did a good job with the characters, especially Evelyn who had to struggle to get over her distrust of men due to abuses of past boyfriends. It was also fun to get a preview of Paul Aubrey who is the main love interest in the first Sundin book I read. I look forward to trying more Sundin books. (372 p. 2021)
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