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Obersturmführer Meir is an SS officer who works in the camp close to the Burbeck estate. He despises those in his charge and considers them to be no more than animals for the slaughter. But the arrogant Countess with a father who is a General in the Wehrmacht in Berlin was rapidly becoming a bigger nuisance than the smell from the burial pits.

Helga's discovery of Jewish children hiding on her estate leads her to investigate the nearby camp. What she finds out shocks her to the soul. She decides to take the children to France and somehow to safety. It begins as a whim, but slowly and surely Helga is drawn inexorably down the path to smuggling and eventually, spying. She engages Jacob, one of the children, to help in her plans. And soon she is embroiled with the French Resistance. But her continued trips across occupied Europe to the South of France with "children from her estate" soon attracts even more attention from Obersturmführer Meir. Both soon begin to know exactly what the other is doing, and they begin a game that will lead to final bloodshed in a French forest.

Captain Taylor of the US Army has met Helga only once. But that meeting, and everything he learns about her afterwards, plants a seed of love that won't stop growing. But Helga isn't easy to find once lost.

When Captain Taylor visits a Convent in the Southern French resort of Antibes in 1948 he soon finds out that the end of the war isn't the end of the story. But what connects a German Countess in the war with a catholic nun in Cyprus in 1946? And will Captain Taylor finally track her down?