Do Not Disturb!
Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.
I don’t normally post the arcs when I’m currently reading them, but I absolutely have to for Jennifer Robson and her book coming out next month (1/5).
Ya know how we are always asking each other who our auto read authors are? Well, Jennifer Robson is one of mine. I’ve loved all her amazing historical fiction books, and truly respect the heart and research she has put into each one.
Now, I’m off to hide with this book and a pot of peppermint coffee. I’ll come out when I’m finished! - Don’t worry about my family...there are tons of leftovers in the fridge...they will survive.😂
💬Do you like to read your favorite authors in one sitting, or draw it out so you can savor the story?
Synopsis: It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive—to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met.
Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to run his family’s farm. A moral and just man, he could not stand by when the fascists and Nazis began taking innocent lives. Rather than risk a perilous escape across the mountains, Nina will pose as his new bride. And to keep her safe and protect secrets of his own, Nico and Nina must convince prying eyes they are happily married and in love.
But farm life is not easy for a cultured city girl who dreams of becoming a doctor like her father, and Nico’s provincial neighbors are wary of this soft and educated woman they do not know. Even worse, their distrust is shared by a local Nazi official with a vendetta against Nico. The more he learns of Nina, the more his suspicions grow—and with them his determination to exact revenge.
As Nina and Nico come to know each other, their feelings deepen, transforming their relationship into much more than a charade. Yet both fear that every passing day brings them closer to being torn apart.
