Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married.īut little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz.
It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war.
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