![]() Facing starvation and disease, Franz struggles to keep the refugee hospital open and protect his family from a terrible fate. The danger escalates for Shanghai's Jews as the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. The chemistry between them is intense and immediate, but Sunny's life is shattered when a drunken Japanese sailor murders her father. At a refugee hospital, Franz meets an enigmatic nurse, Soon Yi "Sunny" Mah. Franz Adler, a renowned surgeon, is swept up in the wave of anti-Semitic violence and flees to Shanghai with his daughter. Meanwhile, the Japanese Imperial Army rampages through China and tightens its stranglehold on Shanghai, a city that becomes the last haven for thousands of desperate European Jews.ĭr. ![]() November 9, 1938- Kristallnacht-the Nazis unleash a night of terror for Jews all across Germany. ![]()
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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() And to Emily Greenwood and Jill Archer for much of the same. Thank you to Jill Shalvis for keeping me sane during the second-book-revision syndrome. Thank you to beta readers, Jill Archer, Claire Greer, Jennifer Hendren, and Susan Montgomery. Thank you to my first readers and brainstorming partners extraordinaire, Karina Callihan Escobar and Rachel Walsh. Thank you to the talented team at Grand Central/Forever, Lauren Plude, Jennifer Reese, Christine Foltzer, Amy Pierpont, and a host of others who help me in so many ways. They were there at the beginning and will be here until the end.Īgain, I must thank my wonderful agent, Kristin Nelson, who always looks out for me. 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