Days of Winter

Plot

In the tradition of her best-selling novels A World Full of Strangers and Fairytales, Cynthia Freeman's spellbinding new love story and family saga spans the tumultuous quarter-century between the two World Wars....

Rubin, a well-born, socially prominent British Jew...Magda, the girl he marries against all opposition, a survivor by nature who becomes first the governess, then the lady of a wealthy Parisian household only to find herself in a triangle she can neither prevent nor break--mistress of one brother, wife of the other...a Nazi chief of intelligence, who rearranges all their lives...a Europe swinging from riotous peace to devastating war...these are the central characters and forces in a rich, deeply satisfying novel alive with triumphant humanity and the fierce will to survive.

As Cynthia Freeman weaves her tale through the capitals of Europe and the minefields of human emotion, she sweeps one up in a story of destiny and passion as only she can tell it, a love story so provocative yet so deeply poignant that it will be difficult ever to forget. For her millions of readers, and the millions more who have yet to discover her, The Days of Winter is a magnificent new story-telling treat.

Cynthia Freeman made her home in San Francisco. Her previous novels are A World Full of Strangers and Fairytales.