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“Two Necklaces” is due out November 21 on all major book sales sites.

Synopsis:

In the beginning of 1933 when Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany, fourteen-year-old Christa Becker of Ravensburg, Germany, is attending meetings of the League of German Girls, which was established to create dedicated wives whose role was to give birth to superior Aryan children. At home and excited to share ideas promulgated by the new regime with her brother Jürgen, he protests the threads of anti-Semitism weaving their way into the German culture. When he refuses to disconnect from a close Jewish friend another member of the Hitler Youth attacks Jürgen causing serious brain damage. As the facts of the attack become known and Christa begins questioning the regime’s teachings, she meets Paul, a Jewish jeweller. The events that bring them together throw her life and her family into chaos. Determined to break loose from the tight leash of her father, an engineer doing work for the military and government higher-ups, Christa enlists the help of her grandmother to navigate her developing relationship with Paul.

As the years move on Jewish shops and businesses are boycotted, concentration camps are erected, and laws are passed barring Jews from holding government or university positions and stating they are no longer considered German citizens nor can they marry Aryans or fly the German flag. A lull in the escalating anti-Semitic activities occurs in 1936 as Hitler, bent on creating an image of a new strong and united Germany, masks the targeting of Jews while readying Germany for the summer Olympic Games. The lessening of overt hostilities gives Christa a false sense of security that the persecution of Jews has calmed causing her to take risks that set her and everyone she loves in the path of Nazi destruction. Hair-raising, nail-biting turmoil ensues but she refuses to back down from her burning desire to be with Paul.

Written by award winning, international best-selling author, Paulette Mahurin, Two Necklaces is not an ordinary love story, it is a story of a German girl’s coming of age and daring to think for herself when that in and of itself was dangerous, even life-threatening. No, this is not an ordinary love and resistance story, it is much more complex delving into the very nature of the human condition, prone to change, invested with frailty and strength and the struggle of mind and heart. It is a story that will keep the reader guessing to the last page which wins out.

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