In a room somewhere in Germany a child is born with the midwife helping. It might be in a hospital, a ghetto*, a concentration camp or a castle. The only concern of the midwife is the health of the mother and the child. Thus life happens or not depending on the circumstances, during wartime or not.

Written by Mandy Robotham, this is an enthralling* tale of courage, betrayal* and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” “The Secret Orphan” and “The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz” will love.

This is Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive.

But when Hoff’s work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerous than she could ever have imagined.

She is whisked from hell-scape to eerie luxury when she is brought to Hitler’s private mountain estate to care for his pregnant mistress Eva Braun.

Robotham writes movingly of the eternal* human struggle to preserve reverence* for life in the midst of genocide and horror.

Does she serve the Reich she loathes* and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world?

Robotham does a wonderful job making Braun a “likeable” character when the world only knows her as another evil sidekick of Hitler. We see her as a soon-to-be mom doing her best for the child. The outcome at birth may grab readers by surprise.

(SD-Agencies)