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A tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse the bestselling and awardwinning author of Girl in the Blue CoatGermany 1945 The soldiers who liberated the GrossRosen concentration camp said the war was over but nothing feels over to eighteenyearold Zofia Lederman Her body has barely begun to heal her mind feels broken And her life is completely shattered Three years ago she and her younger brother Abek were the only members of their family to be sent to the right away from the gas chambers of AuschwitzBirkenau Everyone elseher parents her grandmother radiant Aunt Majathey went left

Zofias last words to her brother were a promise Abek to Zofia A to Z When I find you again we will fill our alphabet Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past Miriam desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation Breine a former heiress who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fianc And Josef who guards his past behind a wall of secrets and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once

But the deeper Zofia digs the more impossible her search seems How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing In the rubble of a broken continent Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break heror help her rebuild her world