⁂✻During World War II, an American soldier encounters a German woman living a secret life in bomb-blighted London. In September of 1940, the Blitz had begun. Like other British civilians, Audrey Stocking is determined to survive, except she isn?t from England. She is a German?a young Jewish woman with a fake passport and a nearly-perfect British accent, trying her best to blend into the city. Her days are kept busy working for the Woman?s Voluntary Services to evacuate British children into the countryside, saving them from nightly bombings over London. But she also writes secret letters addressed to her father?s factory back home. Audrey longs to be reunited with her father and younger brothers in Germany, but she isn?t holding out much hope. If the bombs don?t get her, British Military Intelligence will. And then there?s the paralyzing nightmares and flashbacks?something from her past she can?t quite remember. When an air raid leaves an unexploded bomb wedged in the floor of Audrey?s .