Luisa Voekler is a CIA code breaker in 1980s Washington, D.C. Even since she was a young girl, she’s excelled at solving puzzles and deciphering messages. Her grandfather made sure to cultivate those skills. Having been raised by her grandparents who emigrated from Berlin when she was a child, she doesn’t know much about her… Continue reading The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay
Elise Branson is the CEO of her own PR company and newly engaged to her fiancé Hunter. She’s also the daughter of award-winning actress Gracelyn Branson. And the granddaughter of Hollywood icon Vivian Snow. Needless to say, her family name is very well-known, even if she has no interest in continuing the legacy herself. Now with a wedding to plan, her mother urges her to get married at the chapel where Vivian married her husband Tom, in Edinburgh, Indiana. Conveniently for Gracelyn, her filmmaker boyfriend Mac Dorman wants to make a documentary about the legendary matriarch who started it all. With the joyous occasion now becoming a film project, Elise reluctantly complies. And while filming, she discovers more details about her grandmother. And a shocking secret threatens to tarnish the Snow/Branson name forever. When We Were Enemies by Emily Bleeker is a dual-POV historical fiction novel that follows both Elise and Vivian during the most monumental times in their lives, and the choices they must make to save themselves. Read more
