Praise for What I Promise You In What I Promise You, Liz Tolsma seamlessly weaves together storylines from 1942, 1955, and present day, all set in a village in the Pyrénées region of southern France. A majestic chateau in the village becomes a principal character in the story in each timeline. With hauntingly beautiful prose and detailed research, Tolsma introduces a cast of colorful and courageous individuals during World War II who risk their lives to save Jewish women and children, and a young woman in present day determined to heal her own wounds by untangling a mystery tied to the chateau and its history. Tolsma keeps the reader guessing until the very end in this dazzling read sure to please fans of historical fiction. —Elizabeth Musser, novelist (The Swan House, The Secrets of the Cross Trilogy, The Promised Land, By Way of the Moonlight)
Praise for What I Would Tell You ~ Angel Award Winner ~
Once again Liz Tolsma has delivered a novel so carefully researched, so beautifully composed, that the reader can't help but step into the shoes of the characters. What I Would Tell You is a book that could only be told by a storyteller with a high regard for history, a love for the reader, and a deep well of empathy. Tolsma is such a writer. You'll want to hold this story close to your heart. —Susie Finkbeiner, author of The Nature of Small Birds and Stories That Bind Us Liz Tolsma’s stirring dual time novel, What I Would Tell You, sheds light on an unfamiliar and intriguing piece of World War II history combined with a vivid and immersive setting in Greece amid the terror the Third Reich brought to Jews in the city of Salonika. Three generations later in the same city now known as Thessaloniki, a young American woman has her ancestral identity shaken by the results of a DNA test, offering an unforgettable glimpse into how present-day technology can not only connect us to the