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A harrowing true-life recounting of a perhaps lesser-known chapter in the bleakest time in human history. As we follow the lives of three women, beginning in the year 1939, we are introduced to three very different POVs surrounding the terrors and trials of WWII.

Caroline Ferriday is a NYC socialite, thirty-seven years old, who is committed to providing whatever assistance she can to the dislocated and suffering families in war-torn France through her volunteer post at the French Consulate.

Kasia Kuzmerick is a seventeen year Polish student, based in Lublin, which is about to become Hitlers’s main outpost for the planning and delivery of his war-time atrocities centered in this country.

Herta Oberhauser is a female medical doctor – a rarity in her home town of Düsseldorf, Germany – and a woman who both feels she has a lot to prove, and is deeply committed to the ideals of the ruling Nazi party.

When Kasia becomes a political prisoner of the Nazi realm and is sent to Ravensbruck, the notorious women’s camp in Furstenberg, Germany, her life takes a turn into the surreal and the abominable. Without giving the plot away (no spoilers here), exactly what is done to her and her fellow prisoners, and the efforts put in place to restore at least some semblance of justice to their world, is the substance of this novel – a gripping and moving journey into both the very best, and the very worst, that humanity has to offer.

Although the subject matter may contribute to making this a hard book to read, if you are at all like this reader, you will be glad you did. A fascinating and original take on a chilling and appalling historical era – and a story that needs to be told.