Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books, torched by the German Students Union. The Nazi party is swelling in number, and the universities, the centres of learning in Germany, are no longer a safe place for Anya, a young philosophy student. Anya can only watch on, horrified, as her beloved city falls to fascism—until she grabs a banned book from the embers of the flames. But she is quickly caught, not by the Nazis, but by a grassroots resistance group. The usually law-abiding Anya is forced to make a choice: continue being a bystander, or sacrifice herself to save the lives of others…

New York, present day. Struggling for ideas for her gigs as a freelance journalist, Maddie is shocked to come across a series of political postcards in her great aunt’s attic. But how did they come to be in the possession of her conservative aunt? And so begins a journey that will take Maddie to Oxford, to Berlin and beyond as she searches for the origins of the postcards that changed people’s lives across the globe…