β Scribed by Lieberman, Lisa
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Budapest: 1956. Newlywed Cara Walden's brother ZoltΓ‘n has disappeared in the middle of the Hungarian revolution, harboring a deadly wartime secret. Will Cara or the Soviets find him first?
Cutting short her honeymoon in Paris to rescue a sibling she's never met was not Cara's idea, but her husband Jakub has a reckless streak, and she is too much in love to question his judgment. Together with her older brother Gray, they venture behind the Iron Curtain, seeking clues to ZoltΓ‘n's whereabouts among his circle of fellow dissidents, all victims of the recently overthrown Communist regime. One of them betrayed him, and Cara realizes that the investigation has put every person they've met at risk. Inadvertently, they've also unmasked a Russian spy, who is now tailing them in the hope that they will lead him to ZoltΓ‘n.
They take refuge in a remote corner of the Tokaj winemaking region with GyΓΆrgy, an old family friend who is the sole survivor of the town's once-thriving Jewish...
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