The Puppet Maker's Daughter

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's Hungary 1944. </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The war comes late to Budapest. Nineteen-year-old Marika forced out of nursing school believes she and her Jewish family will remain safe even as Nazi soldiers fill their cobbled streets. With Russians to their east the Allies to their west everyone assumes the war is nearly over. Her father once a prominent engineer returns to his passion for puppet making. Soon she is pulled into the resistance to rescue orphans and displaced Jews while keeping her family one step ahead of Eichmann's extermination plans.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the world turns dark around her the fanatical Arrow Cross Party a ruthless group that listens to no one including the Germans unleashes a killing spree on the remaining Jews of Europe. One day as peril intensifies she must make a decision that puts her in extreme danger to save herself her family and the orphans she's sheltered.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Will she regret that moment for the rest of her life?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of family even if the members are patched together with remnants of other shattered lives.</span></p>