New Releases by Pam Jenoff

The Kommandant''s Girl Emma Bau has only been married three weeks when the Nazis invade her native Poland. After her husband is forced underground as part of a resistance movement, Emma soon finds herself imprisoned in the ghetto with her parents. There she meets one of the resistance leaders with his help, she is able to escape and live under an assumed, non–Jewish identity. Emma''s already precarious situation is complicated when she meets Kommandant Georg Richwalder a Nazi official who insists that Emma come to work for him. Desperately, Emma wrestles with questions of loyalty and duty until at last she is able to locate information sought by the resistance movement unleashing a chain of events that will change Emma''s life, and the lives of those she loves, forever. Also includes – The Diplomat''s Wife 1945: Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. Recovering from the horror, she meets Paul, an American soldier who gives her hope of a happier future. But their plans to meet in London are dashed when Paul''s plane crashes. Devastated and pregnant, Marta marries Simon, a caring British diplomat and glimpses the joy that home and family can bring. But her happiness is threatened when she learns of a Communist spy in British intelligence, and that the one person who can expose the traitor is connected to her past.

Een stormachtige romance komt tot een eind. Een nieuw leven begint. Maar het verleden laat iemand nooit helemaal los... Liefde, warmte, veiligheid... Marta Nedermann heeft er jaren niet van kunnen genieten. Maar nu is het vrede en ligt de wereld voor haar open. Na een avontuurlijke en bewogen tocht door Europa belandt ze uiteindelijk in Londen, waar ze met Simon, een Britse diplomaat, trouwt en een gezin sticht. Toch is het bestaan niet zo rustig en vredig als ze had gehoopt. Iemand binnen de Britse regering speelt geheimen door aan de Russen, en Simon werkt overuren om het lek te dichten. Wanneer blijkt dat iemand uit Marta''s oude Poolse verzetsgroep informatie heeft waarmee de dader ontmaskerd kan worden, krijgt ze opdracht om naar het Oostblok af te reizen en deze persoon op te sporen. Het wordt een reis terug naar het verleden. Het weerzien met oude vrienden vervult haar met vreugde, maar niets raakt haar dieper dan die ene ontmoeting, een ontmoeting die haar leven voorgoed zal veranderen...

Suspense fiction. Romance. Ten years ago, U.S. State Department intelligence officer Jordan Weiss''s life was turned upside down when she was told her college boyfriend, Jared, drowned in the River Cam. In a shocking discovery, though, she realizes that things weren''t as they seemed and that she had been lied to and betrayed by those closest to her. Reeling from the shock-- and the knowledge that Jared is still alive--Jordan resigns her State Department post and sets off in search of answers. Traveling to Jared''s last known whereabouts on the French Riviera, she encounters Nicole, a mysterious woman who flees after refusing to disclose what she knows about Jared. Following Nicole across Europe, Jordan soon discovers that she is not alone in her pursuit-- Aaron, a handsome and enigmatic Israeli, is chasing Nicole for his own cryptic reasons. Though distrustful of each other, Jordan and Aaron join forces on a journey that takes them half a world away, and only steps ahead of grave peril. As Jordan draws closer to finding the answers that have eluded her for a decade, larger questions remain: Can she reconcile her attraction to Aaron with her unresolved feelings for Jared, the only man she ever loved? Will the truth be too devastating to handle or finally set her free?

From the New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Sapphire—a captivating and suspenseful story of love and betrayal as two dedicated attorneys defend the brother of a Holocaust hero against allegations of war crimes. "At once a historical mystery, a legal thriller, and a romance."—The Philadelphia Inquirer Charlotte Gold is shocked when her ex-fiancé Brian appears on the doorstep of her law office with a troubling case. Roger Dykmans, a wealthy financier and the brother of a Holocaust hero, has been accused of World War II-era war crimes, including the betrayal of his brother and the Jews he tried to save. All Charlotte needs to do is travel to Munich and help Brian’s estranged brother Jack prove Roger’s innocence. Despite her misgivings, Charlotte agrees, but the case is soon hindered by the client himself. Roger refuses to help with his own defense, revealing only that proof of his innocence lies inside an intricate timepiece last seen in Nazi Germany. As Jack and Charlotte track the anniversary clock through the past century, they learn of Roger’s love for his brother’s Jewish wife, Magda, and the tragic decisions he had to make to save her—all the while fighting a growing attraction of their own.

Ten years ago Jordan Weiss suffered the devastating death of her boyfriend Jared, a gifted rower at Cambridge. Since then work as an intelligence officer has taken her to the world''s hot spots where she has faced terrible dangers. However, it''s the thought of returning to England that haunts her most.

Jenoff''s novel chronicles a young female intelligence officer thrust into an international drama dating back to the Second World War.