Driven from Russia by a pogrom, she built a new life in Berlin — just in time for the Nazis to come for her daughters.
Michal’s story begins in a Jewish settlement in the Russian Empire and carries across four decades — through Weimar Berlin, Kristallnacht, the Kindertransport, and the ashes of the Reich. Four books following one family: the mother who survived, and the daughters who inherited her strength.
Four books. One family, from a burning village to a burning Berlin — and what rose from the ashes.
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The story
In a traditional Jewish settlement in the Russian Empire, young Michal dreams of a love outside her arranged marriage — until a Cossack pogrom burns her village to the ground and drives her west toward Berlin, carrying a secret that will shadow the rest of her life.
The saga follows Michal and the family she builds with Tavvi through the rise of the Nazis — Kristallnacht, the Kindertransport that scatters her daughters across an ocean, and the long reckoning after the Reich falls. Across four books, mother and daughters are tested by love, exile, and war, and hold to the one thing the century keeps trying to take. Read in order, start to finish.
The saga
Michal’s Destiny
A traditional Jewish settlement in the Russian Empire. Michal, young and sheltered, has eyes for a man who is not her betrothed — but when a Cossack pogrom shatters her village, she flees toward Berlin with the man she thought she wanted, carrying a secret that threatens her every chance at happiness. Over fourteen turbulent years in Weimar Germany, she learns who she truly is.
A Family Shattered
Berlin, 1938. Michal and Tavvi have built a life of love and two beautiful daughters, Alina and Gilde. Then Kristallnacht comes — blood in the streets, shattered glass, Nazi mobs. When Tavvi risks everything to save his daughter’s fiancé, one act of courage may mean Michal never holds him again. In an instant, everything they built comes crashing down.
Watch Over My Child
After her parents are seized on Kristallnacht, twelve-year-old Gilde is torn from her sister and everyone she loves and put on a Kindertransport train to London, to live among strangers. Over seven years she comes of age in a foreign land — learning love, friendship, heartache, and betrayal — while the war she fled keeps reaching for her still.
Another Breath, Another Sunrise
After the fall of the Reich, the survivors go searching for the people they lost — and find that none of them are who they were before. In a Berlin overrun by Russian soldiers, Lotti fears for her life; in America, Alina has defied tradition to build a business but cannot stop worrying for those across the ocean; in London, Gilde has found fame as an actress and a void nothing can fill. The saga’s final reckoning is a search for the way home.
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