Author Description

"As World War 2 draws near, the world is thrown into turmoil. No one quite feels it as much as Alessia and Aradia. They live in a small town of Cologne, Germany surrounded by everything they love, but soon an ultimate power hovers over their lives. The Nazis. Soon chaos reigns and death floats over the whole of Europe, waiting to call checkmate. On a thunderous day they experience their first feeling of loss as their father dies in front of them. It is a rabbit hole they cannot escape from. Such an event spins their life around, setting them off into the fray: a new life that they must endure and survive.With the help of their mother, a piece of resistance and their own will to survive, they push on in the hope of escaping Hitler’s reach.Death and loss are inescapable, and they soon learn that on the run. It is an unavoidable path of life that soon leads to Alessia and Aradia venturing away from each other.Alessia soon becomes just another number, a pawn in the Nazi regime, wondering if she will ever see her family again. On the other side of the world, Aradia experiences a new world that tests her at every turn both culturally and emotionally.They each find small slivers of hope to push forward, whether from a book of fairy tales, love or a journal from the past. Each item gives them a message to help them in their lives. But in the end a true question remains. Do Alessia and Aradia have the hope to survive? Can they truly overcome the hatred of others? Can hope ever conquer all?"