Roberta Kagan Books in Order

In Nazi Germany in 1943, pregnant Petra Jorgenson must escape a Lebensborn institution to protect her unborn child. The dangerous forests around Munich stand between her and freedom as the regime pursues its plans for an Aryan generation.

After the Third Reich falls, Heinrich Himmler takes his own life to avoid earthly prosecution. He discovers that death offers no escape from judgment when he must answer before Jesus for his crimes against humanity.

A mansion in New Orleans conceals a brothel run by male vampires, whose bites inspire a dangerous longing in their victims. Within this world of desire and supernatural intrigue, two brothers become entangled in destructive rivalry.

Brittney Ellis has spent years longing to escape her position as an unpopular student. When she reinvents herself and joins the crowd she once admired, friendship and young love force her to reconsider what acceptance really means.

As Rasputin gains influence over Russia's imperial court, he encounters a young Romany woman with supernatural powers of her own. Their meeting sets off a tale of romance, betrayal, and competing magic across Siberia and Europe.

In Nazi-occupied Poland, Romany resistance fighters hide in the forests and wage a private war against the Third Reich. A love story unfolds within their struggle, shaped by cultural traditions, danger, and the determination to remain free.

An Oxford history student becomes consumed by the unsolved murders attributed to Jack the Ripper. His investigation draws him and his girlfriend into danger as historical curiosity develops into an obsession with increasingly disturbing consequences.

Fifteen-year-old runaway Lilly seeks adventure in Chicago in 1969 and attracts the attention of a motorcycle gang leader. What initially seems exciting becomes threatening as she discovers his possessiveness and struggles to recover control of her life.

Five strangers board the MS St. Louis in 1939, hoping to escape Nazi Germany for safety in Cuba. Their voyage exposes deception and forces decisions about loyalty, love, and survival that continue to shape their lives afterward.

Pregnant and abandoned by an SS officer, Helga agrees to surrender her baby to the Lebensborn program. Her change of heart comes too late, leaving her daughter’s future dependent on unexpected protectors as war overtakes Nazi Germany.

Holocaust survivor Zofia Weiss prepares to sail for Palestine with a young girl she has promised to protect. A familiar face in the crowd revives the threat of an SS officer who knows a secret capable of destroying their new life.

A Jewish-American visitor travels to Israel seeking answers to a personal secret, while Mossad agent Elan struggles with his shattered private life. A terrorist threat draws their stories into a conflict that tests loyalties, resilience, and the costs of protection.

After a pogrom destroys her Siberian village in 1919, Michal flees to Berlin with the man she desires. Over fourteen years, family secrets and romantic upheaval threaten her happiness as Germany moves toward Nazi rule.

From the Six-Day War onward, Elan’s devotion to Israel repeatedly collides with his intimate relationships. The women he loves, marries, and tries to protect become central to a life shaped by military service, sacrifice, and secrets.

Michal and Tavvi have built a family in Berlin, but Kristallnacht destroys their security. When Tavvi intervenes to protect their daughter's fiancé, his disappearance leaves Michal and their children struggling to survive and find one another.

After Nazi Germany falls, a scattered family struggles to reunite. Lotti faces danger in occupied Berlin, Alina worries from America, and Gilde discovers that professional success in London cannot replace the relatives she has lost.

After her parents are arrested on Kristallnacht, twelve-year-old Gilde escapes Germany on a Kindertransport. Growing up among strangers in London, she confronts wartime bombing, betrayal, and uncertainty while clinging to the hope of a family reunion.

To save her daughter from the Warsaw ghetto, Zofia arranges for a Polish friend to raise the child in hiding. Years of danger deepen Helen’s attachment to the girl, complicating the meaning of motherhood when Zofia returns to reclaim her.

The adult children of Holocaust survivors Eidel and Dovid Levi struggle with guilt, rebellion, and the desire to please their parents. Each must confront how the family’s inherited trauma and expectations have shaped their relationships and sense of self.

Charli moves to New York hoping to become an actress, but her new life proves harder than expected. An encounter with a Christmas angel helps her reconsider a frightening experience and the possibility of an unexpected blessing.

Holocaust survivors Eidel and Dovid Levi arrive in the United States hoping to build a secure future. Adjusting to a new country brings unfamiliar challenges and persistent antisemitism as they establish a home and raise their family.

The Nazi occupation has ended, but Soviet control brings a different climate of fear to Warsaw. Coming of age amid this uncertainty, Ela Dobinski carries a secret with the power to transform her life.

In 1917, Cyrus Hunt leaves his Appalachian home, convinced his preacher father favors his brother. War and years of wandering through Depression-era America confront him with questions of faith, family, and the consequences of his choices.

Benjamin Rabinowitz watches his wife and son leave the Lodz ghetto, unsure whether their escape will mean permanent separation. Meanwhile, Ilsa Guhr sees the Nazi rise as an opportunity for power, drawing two very different lives toward a dangerous intersection.

Returning to the Appalachians, Cyrus Hunt hopes to reconcile with his brother and discovers a granddaughter almost his daughter's age. As the two girls grow up together, rivalry, insecurity, and betrayal threaten the family's renewed bonds.

Gretchen Schmidt secretly shelters the married Jewish man she loves while his wife passes as Aryan. Her friendship with Hilde, a concentration-camp guard, becomes a source of danger as Nazi ideology threatens to expose what Gretchen is hiding.

In Berlin in 1933, Eli and Rebecca confront the growing threat of Nazi persecution. Their survival may depend on Gretchen, a non-Jewish woman whose forbidden friendship with Eli places family expectations, marriage, and personal loyalty in dangerous conflict.

A missing child in a New York town unleashes antisemitic accusations against the Schatzman family in 1928. Some relatives seek refuge in Berlin, unaware that the political changes gathering in Germany will threaten the safety they hope to recover.

Facing the forced removal of children from the Lodz ghetto, a mother helps Sarah and Solomon escape through barbed wire. Unable to follow, she leaves the young siblings to navigate occupied Poland, relying on strangers for protection and survival.

Back in Berlin, Goldie Schatzman embraces a turbulent social life while concealing her identity amid growing Nazi influence. In Manhattan, her son Sam’s involvement with organized crime and a romantic rivalry complicate the family’s already precarious future.

The Schatzman family faces new dangers across America and Europe as war approaches. Sam’s criminal work changes after Prohibition, Alma considers a marriage in fascist Italy, and relatives in Berlin struggle to recognize when escape from Nazi persecution becomes essential.

As Hitler’s regime approaches collapse, the secrets binding Kara, Abram, Oskar, and Anka begin to unravel. Fractured marriages, buried histories, and the desire for reunion force them to confront the consequences of choices made under Nazi rule.

Luisa Eisenreich’s hopes of escaping poverty collapse when the wealthy Jewish man she loves becomes engaged to someone else. Bitterness and a friendship with Adolf Hitler’s sister draw her toward a life shaped by ambition, revenge, and destructive choices.

A German woman’s forbidden relationship with Abram brings a son whose Jewish identity must remain hidden. When Kristallnacht destroys their fragile sense of safety, she faces increasingly desperate choices to protect her child from Nazi persecution.

Kara conceals her Jewish son in a Nazi officer’s home, only for the boy to disappear. Her search depends on SS officer Oskar, whose compassion and obsession make his assistance as unsettling as the danger surrounding them.

Sam confronts an old enemy in Manhattan while his relatives search for a way out of Nazi Germany. In Rome, Alma and her husband must weigh a dangerous medical deception against the uncertain prospect of escaping persecution on their own.

The Aizenberg family confronts confinement in the Warsaw ghetto while a young doctor receives a coveted appointment with Mengele at Auschwitz. In occupied Paris, Gisele’s search for her father adds another strand to lives increasingly controlled by Nazi power.

Within the shadow of Mengele’s experiments, Ernst struggles to save Shoshana, Bluma, and Perle. Elsewhere, Gisele faces a man exploiting her secrets, while Naomi and Herschel endure uncertainty over whether they will ever see their daughters again.

Naomi fears that her daughter’s nightmares and her own disturbing dreams foretell danger to their village. Already trapped in an unhappy marriage and a secret affair, she faces the approach of Nazi persecution with a growing sense of helplessness.

Margot’s desperately ill son may be helped by a Jewish doctor deprived of resources under Nazi persecution. Her husband’s attempts to save the child collide with family secrets and her sister’s dangerous loyalties, threatening to tear their relationships apart.

Nazi persecution scatters Anna, Bernie, Elica, and Dagna, testing their childhood bond. As one seeks her husband and another tries to save a baby, loyalty and ambition pull the women toward increasingly dangerous choices.

Three girls from different backgrounds promise lifelong loyalty in Austria in 1929. As they grow older, poverty, class divisions, and spreading Nazi antisemitism put their friendship under pressure and test the meaning of their blood pact.

Two brothers’ rivalry over Adelaide is complicated by war and a child whose Jewish ancestry must remain hidden. As Germany changes under Hitler’s rise, a secret initially carried by one man threatens the future of the entire family.

War continues to divide the blood sisters as Anna finds refuge among the Romany and Moriah faces danger in Ravensbrück. Elsewhere, Elica seeks redemption while a child is sheltered in fascist Italy, placing fragile bonds under further strain.

Margot flees Nazi persecution and a sister threatening to expose her Jewish ancestry, seeking refuge with the man she loves. Meanwhile, her husband faces blackmail and divided loyalties as the war intensifies and their family’s hidden conflicts approach a reckoning.

As girls are murdered in wartime Frankfurt, Margot marries a Nazi officer to conceal the identity of her unborn child's father. In Berlin, Trudy's affair with an SS officer draws her into another dangerous arrangement.

Passing as an SS officer, Jewish father Pitor Barr searches for his stolen son while hiding within the Nazi hierarchy. A marriage intended to uncover the boy’s whereabouts brings new scrutiny, as another survivor’s struggle in Auschwitz may affect his mission.

After repeated bereavements, Pitor Barr finds renewed hope with Mila as war approaches Poland. Their family endures betrayal and the Warsaw Ghetto, but the loss of their young son forces Pitor to confront how much he can endure for love.

Promising his dying wife that he will survive and find their son, Pitor Barr enters Nazi Germany under a false identity. His search for Jakup forces him to live among his enemies and make increasingly painful compromises to remain alive.

Lily leaves Paris with her daughter Mimi and American husband to begin a new life in New York. Friendship with another young mother offers support, but tragedy forces a journey back toward a Europe threatened by Nazism.

Abused and neglected in her village home, Greta finds friendship with Ruth and hopes for love with Hermann. An arranged marriage sends her to a wealthy Berlin household, where a faithless husband and concealed histories reshape the course of her life.

Greta’s hidden refugees must flee when her SS-officer husband nearly discovers them. As the family scatters and Ziggy is sent to Auschwitz, Ludwig’s ambitions and cruelty force those around him toward choices with devastating consequences.

In 1933 Berlin, Ziggy struggles between his father’s Nazi ambitions and his own growing doubts. Discovering the Jews his mother Greta shelters beneath their home entangles him in a dangerous choice between obedience, love, and conscience.

The Nazi occupation destroys the life Mimi shares with her grandmother Chloe in Paris. As Jewish families are arrested, Mimi encounters Nick, a boy she once trusted, now wearing the uniform of the enemy.

A German teenager’s love for a Jewish girl conflicts with the Nazi movement’s growing power. Hoping to protect her and her family, Detrick joins the party and begins a double life whose discovery could destroy everyone he cares about.