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<em>Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold</em><p>Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined—an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book <em>The Hazards of Good Breeding.</em></p><p> Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband’s ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows.</p><p>First Marianne rescues six-year-old Martin, the son of her dearest childhood friend, from a Nazi reeducation home. To