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When the War is Over

During the last months of a brutal war, a sixteen-year-old boy must fight for survival.

Germany, 1945. Ever since Anton Kohler first heard the vibrant sound of the violin, he’s dreamed of mastering the instrument. But when his father dies, the fifteen-year-old must give up his passion to support his seven younger siblings. As the Russian army marches closer to his hometown, Anton and his best friend Gerhard are pulled from their families and forced to help defend their home in a last desperate stand.

When Anton witnesses the slaughter of concentration camp prisoners, he vows to escape the war and find a way home to his family and his girl, Luise. In the chaos of impending defeat, Anton is torn between his promise to protect the life of his best friend and his desire to survive the war with his conscience intact.

When the War is Over is a historical fiction novel set in the last turbulent months of World War II, Germany. Based on a true account, this coming-of-age story is a tale of love and friendship, of hope and loss.

Now available as an ebook, paperback and audiobook.

When the Walls Come Down

She was raised to be a good German girl. Now everything she believes in is falling apart.

Germany, 1945: Fifteen-year-old Luise Hofmann believes in the Reich. She believes in victory, in sacrifice, in everything she has been taught to believe.

But when her father returns from the Eastern Front haunted and disillusioned, when her friend’s family is torn apart by the Gestapo, and a banned novel forces her to confront the truth about the war, Luise can no longer look away.

Navigating black markets, air raids, and a regime that is both collapsing and tightening its grip, she risks everything to protect those she loves—even as she is still learning who she is.

A powerful novel about courage, complicity, and the cost of keeping your humanity when the world demands otherwise.