It's August 1961 and Ursula, Wolfgang, Ruth and Renata stand gazing across the barrier being erected between West and East Berlin. The forsaken children are young adults and their world is about to change dramatically as the Cold War rages between the east and the west. Held together by love and circumstance, they chart their paths. Traveling between New Your City, Berlin and Iowa City, Iowa the young people experience trauma, discrimination, romance and mystery. Ursula establishes herself as a poet, Wolfgang comes to terms with his sexuality and Ruth chooses to side with the resistance against the Communists. Where does life in the shadows lead them? This novel continues the Billy Love Wolf series which chronicles the lives of Billy Love, Katerina, Elisabetha and Eva Braun, navigating their German and American heritages.
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