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Into the Shadows
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781069223913
Publisher: Banner & Ash
Published: May 20 2026
Pages: 366
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the shadows of the Reich, one woman plays a deadly game.
Switzerland, 1938. On an ordinary afternoon, a mother is preparing dinner for her family. A knock sounds on the door. Two young men burst in, knives drawn, and forcefully drag her upstairs. The last thing she sees before the brutal assault are the tattoos inked on their biceps: Nazi swastikas.
Ella returns home to find her mother beaten, her home shattered, her life upended. And she realizes... it's her fault. Devastated and burning with rage, Ella knows she has to do something. But what?
Two months pass. Ella has just turned nineteen, and travels to London-where a chance encounter reunites her with a former acquaintance, Kurt, now an army captain working with Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).
As their relationship deepens-and just as Kurt is sent on a mission-he arranges a meeting between Ella and the SIS. Fluent in multiple languages and fiercely driven, Ella is quickly recruited and sent undercover into the heart of Nazi Germany. Her cover: a linguistics professor. Her true purpose: to gather critical intelligence from inside the Third Reich.
But duty and desire collide when Ella learns Kurt has been captured and imprisoned in Dachau. Desperate to save him, she petitions the SIS to attempt a near-impossible rescue.
With a ruthless SS officer closing in and the risk of exposure growing by the day, Ella must navigate the brutal realities of life inside the Third Reich. In a regime built on fear and control, survival demands not just bravery, but unflinching discipline-over her thoughts, her emotions, and every carefully constructed detail of the lie she lives.
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