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Across the Dark Water
Paperback
Series: Dark Water, Book 1
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 21 2026
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Tartu, August 1944. The Red Army is three days from the city, and Rein Aule is at his bench, mending a widow's clock because it was promised for Thursday. He has a wife, three children, and three weeks in the spring of 1940 that he has never explained to anyone. He spent them in a windowless room in Königsberg, looking at drawings that were not his own. Three intelligence services would like to know what he saw there.
The Aules go north to a harbour where a place on a fishing boat costs more than a house did in the spring, and find only a German transport heading the wrong way, west, into the war. What follows is a winter in a mountain barrack, forty-eight hours to be gone, a border crossed on papers that are almost right, and a family that has learned to answer to a name that is not its own.
Sweden is where they are told they are safe. It is also where a tired man from Moscow is waiting to close a file that has been open since 1944.
Rein knows how to build a mechanism that does exactly what it is meant to do. What he does not know is what it will cost, or who will pay for it.
Across the Dark Water is a novel about a family that survived, about the people who held a hand over them without ever being seen, and about the one thing a man cannot mend.
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