Sekretářka v utajení – Midwoodová Ellie (2025)

"I forced myself to hold his gaze. My heart was pounding in my chest like a bird beating its wings against glass. They know who I am. They know what I have done."

Dora lost everything because of the Nazis. Her friends disappeared as if they had evaporated into thin air. Her parents were imprisoned in a concentration camp and murdered for the crime of mere existence. Dora has no idea if her beloved husband Alfréd is even alive. Even though the world around her is collapsing in flames, she refuses to succumb to Hitler's tyranny. The Nazis may have broken her heart, but they will not break her spirit.

She secretly works for the underground network in France and risks her life on an extraordinarily dangerous mission in the history of the local resistance: disguised, she poses as the secretary of the head of the Gestapo, a soldier with a mad reputation as a cold-blooded killer. Every day she comes face to face with the enemy. She brews coffee for people she despises. She writes letters for the monsters who slaughtered her family. At any moment, she could be discovered... Can she complete the dangerous task and save thousands of lives?

Another emotion-packed novel by Ellie Midwood set during World War II tells the incredible yet true story of Dora Schaul, one of the bravest women in history who...