"1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Jewish Ghetto in Krakow, Poland, during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her mother are forced to seek refuge in the sewers beneath the city. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of relative ease with her stepmother, who has developed close alliances with the occupying Germans. While on an errand in the market, she catches...

Returning safely to England after the dramatic capture of Martinique, Vice Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho finds an all too brief respite from war and politics. But the shadow of a new conflict darkens the horizon as France forge an alliance with America, threatening the safety of British trade routes.