Secrets She Kept

Hannah Sterling has spent her life wishing she were closer to her mother, a woman who kept her distance. When Lieselotte dies, Hannah begins piecing together a past she never knew, one that includes a grandfather still living in Germany.

Decades earlier, Lieselotte is a young woman caught between her family's ambitions and her own heart. Her father is rising through the ranks of the Nazi party and expects her to marry a man who will serve his rise. Lieselotte loves Lukas, who is quietly working against the regime, and she must weigh what she risks by refusing her father.

The novel alternates between these two timelines as Hannah travels to Germany to meet the grandfather she has just learned of. He has wartime secrets of his own, and Hannah finds herself drawn to him even as what she uncovers unsettles her. She must decide whether her family's painful history can be faced and what its legacy will mean for the life she builds.