Description
The Nation Was Gripped in a Life-and-Death Struggle for Survival. No Less Momentous Was Rachel's Own Personal Struggle.
Rachel Lebowitz had survived the Holocaust, but only at a great personal cost. Joining the thousands of Jewish people streaming into Israel after the Nazi desolation, she is smuggled into the besieged Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem, where she discovers members of her long-lost family. Rachel decides she cannot leave the Old City or the people who stand as one thin line between its survival.
When secrets of her past are uncovered, she is discredited before the very people she wants so desperately to help. Alienated from her own people and left in despair, she is not aware of the enemy forces that threaten her very life.
A SWEEPING HISTORICAL NOVEL OF A YOUNG NATION STRUGGLING TO KEEP ITS MANDATE AND A YOUNG WOMAN STRUGGLING FOR HER LIFE.