Karolina's Twins

Lena Woodward, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, asks Catharine Lockhart, a Chicago attorney, and her husband, Liam, a private investigator, to find her best friend Karolina's twin daughters, who were lost in 1943 during their transport by the Germans to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Lena reveals a heartbreaking tale of a mother's love, friendship, and family in the face of increasingly brutal conditions and the constant threat of imminent death in Nazi-occupied Poland. Lena's son Arthur is convinced it is all a hoax, a plan by someone to separate his mother from her money. A pregnant Catherine, naturally empathetic to the plight of innocent babies, finds herself potentially in contempt of court by insisting on upholding a critical attorney-client confidentiality. The overall theme and quick flow of the narrative are reminiscent of the author's first novel, Once We Were Brothers, but the story itself is quite dissimilar.