Hope at Dawn by Stacy Henrie is $1.99 right now. This is the first book in Henrie’s Of Love and War series, which is set during WWI. The heroine teaches German-American students at a time when there is rampant and vicious prejudice against them. This book has a 4+ star average, and readers found it to be very moving, absorbing, and thoughtful.

The book also received a B grade as part of this year’s RITA® Reader Challenge. Tealadytoo wrote:

On the plus side, we have the very interesting background, and intriguing questions of what patriotism and loyalty really mean.  We have a nicely developing relationship where the conflict starts out as a matter of trust and understanding (Is she just as bigoted as the other townsfolks?  Is she being loyal to her family if she is kind to a non-combatant German when her brothers are fighting overseas, possibly even fighting relatives of his?) and then evolves to issues of whether it is safe to purse the relationship when a love affair between an American girl and a “Bosch” would inflame an already tense situation.

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