Peter is ambivalent about the rise of Hitler and authoritarianism, echoing a perspective that many in the US had at the time about the German nation and their struggles to recover from the devastation of WWI. Peter’s story seems a bit intricate and far-fetched, but it’s actually based on the real-life research of Sundin’s grandfather, John Ebelke, whose professional work includes a textbook called Foundation Course in German and an article called “An Experiment with Recording and Playback Machines in Academic Foreign Language Training.” But unlike real life, the fictional Peter Lang finds himself caught up adjacent to the Nazi party as the Nazis realize how useful Lang’s training could be to their spy networks. student studying German/English and techniques for removing a German-speaker’s accent. She’s in search of the next big story (and let’s just say that 1938 Germany has lots of big stories to tell), when she meets Peter Lang, an American Ph.D. Her journalistic voice is continually throttled by the misogyny of the day, topped off with a editor who seems all too eager to twist her words to paint Hitler and the Third Reich in a positive light.

Evelyn is a woman working in a man’s world. – This is the first line of Sarah Sundin’s WWII romantic thriller When Twilight Breaks and it only gets better from there. This electric standalone novel from fan-favorite Sarah Sundin puts you right at the intersection of pulse-pounding suspense and heart-stopping romance.Įvelyn Brand had done a crack bit of journalism, and she hadn’t even had to dress like a man to do so. But when the brutality of the regime hits close, he discovers a far better way to use his contacts within the Nazi party-to feed information to the shrewd reporter he can't get off his mind. Disillusioned with the chaos in the world due to the Great Depression, he is impressed with the prosperity and order of German society. In another part of the city, American graduate student Peter Lang is working on his PhD in German. If she fails to truthfully report on major stories, she'll never be able to give a voice to the oppressed-and wake up the folks back home.

If she offends the government, she could be expelled from the country-or worse. Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent as determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated profession as she is to expose the growing tyranny in Nazi Germany. Genres: Fiction, Christian, Historical, Suspense, Romance

The Land Beneath Us by Sarah Sundin