The Second Winter: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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WINNER – National Indie Excellence Award 2017 for Literary Fiction

BRONZE WINNER – Foreword INDIES 2016, War & Military

HONORABLE MENTION – San Francisco Book Festival 2017, General Fiction

“Agreat historical novel, a touching family saga, and a noir wartimethriller all rolled into one terrific narrative.” —Lee Child, New York Times best-selling author

Set in Denmark in the darkest days of World War II, The Second Winter is a cinematic novel that, in its vivid portrayal of a familystruggling to survive the German occupation, captures a savage moment inhistory and exposes the violence and want inherent in a father’s love.

Itis 1941. In occupied Denmark, an uneasy relationship between the Danishgovernment and the Germans allows the country to function under theprotection of Hitler’s army, while Danish resistance fighters wage abloody, covert battle against the Nazis. Fredrik Gregersen, a brutish,tormented caretaker of a small farm in Jutland laboring to keep his sonand daughter fed, profits from helping Jewish fugitives cross the borderinto Sweden. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, Polina, a young refugee fromKrakow, finds herself impressed into prostitution by Germans and Danesalike. When Fredrik steals a precious necklace from a helpless family ofJews, his own family’s fate becomes intertwined with Polina’s,triggering a ripple effect that will take decades and the fall of theBerlin Wall to culminate.