Between Crosses and Stars

Marie-Lu Fisher was one of those naive and easily joyful youth. In her 17 years she had the luck of never finding out what true hurt felt like. She had a loving family, a strong faith, and close friends that were always there for her. The closest of them all was a cheerful boy named Tommy Baines, they were inseparable. Her peaceful childhood is ruined, however, by war.

Tommy leaves to fight and Marie-Lu is forced to hide in the countryside afraid that she will be targeted because of her faith. They lose touch with time, and when the war is finally over, a lot has changed. Marie-Lu has attached herself to people in the countryside but as soon as she can, she goes back to London where she encounters Tommy, but the war has left its scars.

The end of the war was far from ending Marie-Lu's problems. She is attracted to Tommy, but that compromises her engagement with the good countryside man, Ben Coleman, an engagement she has kept hidden from her family. When she starts to receive anti-semitic threats, Ben is not the only secret she keeps.

Maybe she should have stayed in the countryside or maybe running away and right into her best friend's arms was the best thing she has ever done.