across the winding river by aimie k runyan

Post war Germany was a total mess, people lost contact with each other during the chaos and it was difficult to find someone missing. Johanna Patterson is Metta’s older sister, during WW II engineer in Germany she designed and flew planes. After 60 years Beth doesn’t like her chances of finding them and her dad doesn’t even know her last name. Older Max had one wish he would like Beth to find out what happened to Metta and her baby. While stationed in Germany he met a young married woman called Margarethe, they had a very short romantic relationship, after the war ended he tried to find her, he couldn’t, he had no idea what happened to Metta and her baby. Of course she has a look at the contents of the box and she discovers a photo of her dad with a pretty pregnant woman and the lady isn’t her mother?ġ944 Max finished his dental training he decided to serve his country and joined the army as a medic. Only when the two women meet does Beth realize how much more to her father there is to know, all the ways in which his heart still breaks, and the closure he needs to heal it.īeth Cohen’s dad Max is 90 and living in an aged care home and one day he asked his daughter to find a box containing his mementos from his time serving as a medic during WW II.

In a nearby private care home is a fragile German-born woman with her own past to share. Ahead of them lay a dangerous romance, a dream of escape, and a destiny over which neither had control.īut Max isn’t alone in his haunting remembrances of war. Together, she and Max were willing to risk everything for what they believed was right. It was 1944 when Max was drawn into the underground resistance by the fearless German wife of a Nazi officer. Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger-a photograph worth a thousand questions.

His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. A woman unlocks the mystery of her father’s wartime past in a moving novel about secrets, sacrifice, and the power of love by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Night Sky.īeth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max.

Across the winding river by aimie k runyan