In Rebecca Cantrell's A City of Broken
Glass, journalist Hannah Vogel is in Poland with her son Anton to cover
the 1938 St. Martin festival when she hears that 12,000 Polish Jews
have been deported from Germany. Hannah drops everything to get the
story on the refugees, and walks directly into danger.
Kidnapped by the SS, and driven
across the German border, Hannah is rescued by Anton and her lover, Lars
Lang, who she had presumed dead two years before. Hannah doesn’t know
if she can trust Lars again, with her heart or with her life, but she
has little choice. Injured in the escape attempt and wanted by the
Gestapo, Hannah and Anton are trapped with Lars in Berlin. While Hannah
works on an exit strategy, she helps to search for Ruth, the missing
toddler of her Jewish friend Paul, who was disappeared during the
deportation.
Trapped in Nazi Germany with her
son just days before Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hannah
knows the dangers of staying any longer than needed. But she can’t turn
her back on this one little girl, even if it plunges her and her family
into danger.