Promises shared between childhood friends are usually forgotten as the years pass, but for Lena Woodward, who started a new life in the US after the Holocaust, there are memories she can’t seem to shed. Her flight from Nazi-occupied Poland brought her safety but not peace, and now she must risk everything to find the courage to face the secrets from her harrowing past that she has worked so hard to outrun.

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