Secrets aren’t such easy things to keep: It’s late summer in 1759, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French-Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest.
As the Allies close in, Magda’s parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the bombs strafing Berlin. But young German women are expected to do their duty, and she is soon assigned to Hitler’s mountain retreat. Only after weeks of training does she learn her assignment: she will be one of the young women tasting the Führer’s food, offering herself in sacrifice to keep him from being poisoned.
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results…
