A door slammed and the unmistakable sound of boots came crashing up the hall. Liese held her little daughterβs hand so tightly, the tiny fingers had turned purple. The SS officerβs hand was at Lieseβs throat before she saw him move.βI can kill you easily, then I can kill your daughter.β He relaxed his grip a little. βOr perhaps I could kill her first?β England, forty years later. When Karen Cartwright is unexpectedly called home to nurse her ailing father, she goes with a heavy heart. The house she grew up in feels haunted by the memory her fatherβs closely guarded secrets about her beautiful mother Elizabeth βs tragic death years before. As she packs up the house, Karen discovers an old photograph and a strangerβs tattered love letter to her mother postmarked from Germany after the war. During her life, Karen struggled to understand her shy, fearful mother, but now she is realising there was so much more to Elizabeth than she knew. For one thing, her name wasnβt even Elizabeth, and her harrowing story begins long before Karen was born. Itβs 1936 in Berlin, and a young woman called Liese is being forced to wear a yellow starβ¦