Margie is a lovey girl,very naive having been brought up in a small town with doting parents. There are so many twists in this book and quite a few shocks that I found it hard to put it down even for a minute. The thought of all those women going through absolute hell on earth is just unbelievable.
I always enjoy books set during the war but I didn't expect this book to take me to a Japanese prison camp and move me so much, it was like watching a film where you are perched on the end of your seat never knowing what might happen next.Īlthough this is a fiction story it is based on true events. We are then told the story of her life from her childhood in Little Michigan to a wartime career in nursing,a career she did not want and only took that path to please her father. She is there with her son Gary and his wife for support but is finding it all too difficult to cope with as she feels she did not show her daughter enough love during her life.Īfter Margie is left safely in her new house she decides to go back to the house where she raised her family in order to feel closer to the memory of Barbara Ann. Margie is eighty one years old and attending the funeral of her daughter Barbara Ann who is has passed away suddenly. She’s risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm.This story made me cry from the very first chapter. Can Gina keep this delicate operation running long enough to outlast the enemy, or is she on a sure path to defeat that will put her family, her freedom, or even her life at risk?īut operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese. She’s risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm. There, she forges a new identity and opens a nightclub, where seductive beauties sing, dance, and tease secrets out of high-ranking Japanese officers while the wildly successful club and its enemy patrons help fund the resistance.īut operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture-or worse.ĭesperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. From the bestselling author of A Pledge of Silence comes a story of resistance, intrigue, and risking it all in the WWII Philippines.ĭecember 1941.
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