The Lost Daughter (The Love and War Series)

The girls sent to the East Wing never returned the same.

No one ever spoke of what happened there.

England, 2001. Elizabeth is alone for the first time in decades. An empty nest. A failed marriage. And a mother whose mind is fading, taking her secrets to the grave.

When she discovers a Nazi certificate among her mother’s belongings, everything she believed about her past begins to unravel.

Elizabeth’s quest to find the truth leads her to Germany, where she’s met with a wall of silence.

Germany, 1943. Hannah Schiffer is seventeen and desperate to survive the war. After defending a Polish worker, she is stripped of her position as head of the girls and sent to a remote hotel in the German countryside.

The nurses are kind. The rooms are luxurious. The food is plentiful.

But the East Wing is locked.

And Hannah soon discovers why.

As the Reich closes in around her, Hannah is forced into an impossible choice — one that will reverberate down the generations.

Decades later, Elizabeth must uncover the truth about what happened in that hotel, and what it means for her family.

Some truths refuse to stay buried.

Part of The Love and War Series, ten novels set during the 20th century's darkest years. Can be read in any order.