Will Tsura continue longing for the one she left behind, or will she fall in love with the man whose ring she now wears on her finger?
Epic WWII saga, for fans of The Bronze Horseman and Outlander.

During WWII in Romania, Tsura’s brother is sent to a concentration camp for being Roma (gypsy) and Tsura is lost and alone until she finds hope in the arms of Andrei, a Jewish man in hiding with her who becomes her lover. Just when she thinks she can begin to find happiness again, however, she is discovered and her only means of protection is to marry Mihai Popescu, the grandson of the man whose basement she and Andrei are hiding in.

Tsura has no choice but to leave the man she loves behind and marry a man she despises. Mihai’s a Nazi sympathizer who works as a translator at the German Embassy in Bucharest. More than that, Mihai’s a strange man of strange habits. He’s stoic in the extreme. Tsura is passionate. He likes silence. She grew up surrounded by music and noise. But as much as she hates it, parading as his happy wife is her best disguise. And she’s Roma, hasn’t her entire life prepared her to wear a false face in front of the gagii (non-Roma)?

But Tsura soon realizes things may not be what they first appeared. The tides of war are swiftly changing. Romanians flee the outer territories as the Red Army gains more and more ground every day. Danger threatens from all sides. When events come to a head, will Tsura return to her former lover or realize that her yearning for family might just be found in the most unlikely place of all—with her husband?

And will any of them be still alive to tell the tale?

87,000 words. Part I of II. Book II comes out September 1, 2015.