The Last Secret - Maia Caron

As the world around her is ripped apart by war and infiltrated by Nazi soldiers, Savka Ivanets works as a medic for the Ukrainian resistance, stitching wounds by day, stealing supplies by night, and dodging firefights between the SS and Soviet partisans. Her husband Marko has been gone for years, first as a commander of the resistance and now as a reluctant member of the SS, and she lives each day fearing what will become of him and that she - or, worse, their young son Taras - will be taken hostage and tortured or killed. Then Marko reappears in the darkness of night and after promising her and Taras an escape to safety after the war, gives Savka a coded message that he demands she deliver to an underground bunker. She protests - to leave her, a woman, to such a task is unimaginably dangerous - but, like in many parts of her life, she has no choice. But Savka''s mission doesn''t go as planned, and Taras is kidnapped by the KGB and she''s shot, left for dead in the trees, and fearing she''ll never see her son again. Salt Spring Island, 1972. Celebrated landscape artist Jeanie Esterhazy lives a quiet life on a waterfront estate on Salt Spring Island, hidden away from the world that, with its whispers and curious eyes, is too much for her to bear. Ever since the horrific accident on her wedding day years ago that left her scarred, Jeanie feels unlovable and utterly alone. She''s trapped in a battle of wills with her nurse, a tough and cruel woman who threatens to reveal the tru
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