This book was previously published as The Other Blue Sky. It may break your heart, but it will piece it back together… Will the secret of who she really is come to light? And can she ever be reunited with her birth family-if they’re even alive?įans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Choice, and Orphan Train will be utterly glued to this unforgettable tale. With a broken heart, she uncovers a story of bravery in the face of evil, hope amongst darkness, and forbidden love-the kind of love that takes immense courage. As she grows older, she pieces together the fragments of her past. That day, her search for answers begins…Įverything in Annie’s life is a lie. “They’re going to find out that she doesn’t belong to us. In New York, over a decade later, Annie listens to her mother and father’s urgent whispers on her twelfth birthday. The innocent new-born has no hope of surviving-unless, by some kind of miracle, she is able to escape… Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, 1943: In Theresienstadt concentration camp, a brown-eyed baby girl is born in darkness, surrounded by barbed wire. Yet we will be dead by the end of the week if we don’t- my precious girl and I have nothing to lose by trying. How will we get by the guards? It seems impossible. This book was previously published as Last Words. Will they remain loyal to each other in the face of death? And when they finally say goodbye, will it be by choice or by force?įans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Choice, and Orphan Train will be totally swept away by this World War Two heartbreaker which shows that, even in hell, love can bloom. To everyone else, we’re wrong, but what does that matter when nothing in this world is right?”īut under the all-seeing gaze of the guards and endless watchtowers, there is only so long they can keep their secret-and the very act of loving each other endangers their lives. Yet, one day, Charlie utters those miraculous words. Amelia sees how Charlie risks everything to save prisoners from deportation-and she sees the kindness in his eyes.Īmongst so much tragedy, falling in love is a miracle.

They are meant to despise one another, but Amelia and Charlie are powerfully drawn to each other. He is her enemy, yet he secretly passes her a piece of bread an act that saves her. She is shoved onto a freight train with hundreds of others-hours pass as they travel in darkness.Īrriving in a concentration camp, Amelia fears for her life when she is led to a block by a soldier.

Out on the cobblestone street, her heart shatters as her mother is shot before her eyes. Nazi-occupied Prague,1942: Amelia is hiding in her closet when flashlights blind her and she’s captured by the SS. The spine crackles as she opens it,reading the long-forgotten words of her grandmother. “What if you never come back? What if you die trying?” The worn leather-bound diary, tied with a red ribbon, has hidden the truth for seventy years.

Last One Home by Shari J. Ryan