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Chance and Consequence

A Historical Novel of Life, Love, and WWII

When the air-raid alarm went off on that gray September dawn of 1939, Rachel, like many others, believed it was just another drill. How could she imagine there was no turning back, not for her, not for the world? She left eight days later at an hour’s notice, with Aleks and Rilka, in a car Aleks managed to requisition from the chief of police. But Sofie, her younger sister, refused to leave Warsaw. As the chauffeur pulled the large black Mercedes around the corner, she had a last glimpse of Sofie, standing in the doorway of their building, waving, her print dress blown against her legs by a sudden breeze, waving, waving.