Three Year of Her Life: A Novel
This debut novel is an indelible portrait of family love, trust, commitment, and unrelenting prejudice. A stirring tale that rides the line between historical fiction and romance., inspired by a famous musician's hidden secret in Germany.
Three Years of Her Life, set in New England and Central Europe, is similar in concern and significant issues to bestselling America epic books of the Great Depression, The Great War and the U.S. South. People and places focused, the novel's heartwarming and heart wrenching themes mark history in unsettled times.
A mystery woman's photo, in question, is in famous grandfather's gold pocket watch for over fifty years. It devastates Elizabeth's estranged grandmother, and she convinces Elizabeth to find the link. At a loss how, Elizabeth's on track to be a nurse not a detective, she gets help from Erik, the doctor who captures her heart. He becomes obsessed with uncovering her grandfather's secret, and discovers more in Germany than the family can take. Now he shares a family heritage. When Elizabeth tries to stand up for Erik and her grandfather, it backfires.
Complicating her own life, Elizabeth falls into an entanglement with her guitar teacher. It's only a longer-for connection to musicians, her absent father and dead grandfather, but it causes uncertainty. She's now torn between two very different men. And what happens if and when she lets one of them go? Erik tips the balance for Elizabeth's decision. He proves his character by risking his life transporting East Berlin hospital patients to the West through the Berlin Wall. But, what if border guards trap him in East Berlin? Unbeknown to Elizabeth, before Erik leaves on the mission, he sets up her future. And, he's dead serious about the plan.
