Bolzano

In the process of understanding who you are, more often you discover who you are not.1937. Northern Italy. Annamarie Steinhauser dreams of becoming an actress but that is a whole world away from her life on the dairy farm in the Reschen Valley. First of all, she is Tyrolean and not Italian, and as far as the Italian nationalists are concerned, an illegal immigrant. When a government delegation arrives from Bolzano to assess their plans for flooding the valley for a much-needed reservoir, Annamarie finds her ticket out: a boy working as an engineering apprentice, and a Fascist uniform. But Annamarie quickly discovers that life on the "other side" is a façade. As she begins the search for her identity in the midst of national glory and fiery propaganda, what she discovers is a hidden history that puts all of her beliefs into question. Love, betrayal, and deception explode in this next book in the Reschen Valley series. This is the third book in the series and can be picked up as a stand-alone.