War widow Cornelia is only a shadow of the woman she once was. She fights now to protect her younger brother, Johan, who lives in hiding.

When Johan brings Gerrit Laninga, a wounded Dutch Resistance member, to Cornelia’s doorstep, her faith won’t let her turn him out.

As she nurses Gerrit, she is drawn to his fierce passion and ideals. When the opportunity to join him in the Resistance presents itself, Cornelia must summon every ounce of courage imaginable.

She is as terrified of loving Gerrit as she is of losing him. But as the winter landscape thaws, so too does her heart. Will she get a second chance at true love?

World War Two has ripped families apart for years, but for Gisela Cramer, the climate of Nazi Prussia, 1945, has given her a piecemeal family. Having fled her aunt and uncle's home on the heels of Soviet troops, she now finds herself custodian of her cousin Ella's two little daughters, ages three and five. On top of that, Gisela must look after two senile sisters, and is thrown together with Mitch Edwards, a British POW disguised as an SS officer. Together, they and a few others must survive the last days of the war without running afoul of the enemy or supposed allies who may subject them to fates worse than even the Nazis could engineer. Gisela believes her only hope lies in her own strength, until the love of God and the love of Mitch show her possibilities she's been afraid to think were possible.

How will two very different people find love—and survive the impossible circumstances of war?