Nettie Gilbert, a talented pianist and great student in her senior year at a small all-girls college in South Carolina. She’s engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Brooks, who is back home in Alabama. Until….she receives a wedding invitation to her sister’s wedding and finds that the groom to be is her fiancé, Brooks!!!

It turns out her sister is pregnant and Nettie is expected, in true Southern fashion to attend the wedding, mind her manners and let bygones be bygones. She isn’t having it and promptly quits school, writes off her family and seeks employment so that she can support herself.

She finds a job several hundred miles away as a live-in caretaker to two elderly, “ old-maid” sisters who have their own secrets and history.

Why I liked it: Asher family together and how it would some way be connected to Avery’s story.

This is a true story of Pino Lella, who becomes part of the Italian resistance during World War II. Although he HATES the Nazis, his parents urge him to join the German military to keep him safe from the Nazis. He ultimately becomes the driver for one of the most powerful Nazi commanders, General Hans Leyers, putting him in a strategic position to help the Italian resistance.

Why I liked it: I’ve read a lot of novels set during World War II, but none of them centered around what was going on in Italy and what the Italians endured. Seeing how the Italian resistance operated was so interesting. And the bravery of Pino and so many