White rose black forest

December 1943. Snow lies deep over the Black Forest, and Franka Gerber lives there alone. She opposes the Nazi regime, and its violence has already cost her both her father and her brother. Before Hitler rose to power, the family's summer cottage rang with laughter. Now she sees little reason to go on.

Then she finds an unconscious airman in the snow, a parachute still snapping in the wind beside him. He wears a Luftwaffe uniform, the uniform of the regime she hates. She cannot leave him to die, so she carries him to her family's remote cabin.

The man is not who his uniform says he is. Franka sets out to learn his real identity, and as she does, the wary tie between them grows closer and riskier. The Gestapo is hunting them both.

This is a wartime novel set in Germany, with a small cast, a snowbound and isolated setting, and a mystery at its center. It carries the tension of two people who must decide whether to trust each other. If they do, they could join forces on a mission with consequences for the war and for their own lives.