The Nazi Bride

A marriage as debt. A truth in a gray file.

Munich, 1950. Clara Schreiner comes home after five years of camp and forced labor east of the Oder. Forty-two kilos, no family, a name she can hardly bear to carry. Her father was a Party man. She saw what happened on his construction sites, and she believes she has to pay for it.

Jack Müller has lost everything the Nazis can take from a boy: his father in Dachau, his home, his childhood. He came back as an American soldier to settle accounts. Now he is rich and drinks too much. And his mother leads the daughter of a Nazi into his salon as his bride, to honor a promise from the summer of 1932.

He doesn’t want to look at her. She doesn’t fight back. Until a file from Nuremberg shows what neither of them knew, and Clara says no for the first time.

A novel about guilt you inherit and guilt you commit yourself. And about two people who can only love each other once they have told each other everything.