Author Series Presents Martha Hall Kelly & Katherine Reay

August 12, 2024 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (EDT)

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Join us as Ocean House owner and bestselling author, Deborah Goodrich Royce moderates a conversation with New York Times bestselling authors Martha Hall Kelly and Katherine Reay who will be discussing (and signing) their books: The Golden Doves and The Berlin Letters, respectively. Refreshments will be served, including wine and light bites! 

About The Golden Doves: Two female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II—an extraordinary novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls. "Deftly illuminates little-known complexities of the post-war era while painting a vivid portrait of the deep scars and trauma that Holocaust survivors carried.” —Pam Jenoff American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette LaRue work for the French resistance, stealing so many Nazi secrets that they're labeled the Golden Doves, renowned across France and hunted by the Gestapo. Their courage will cost them everything when they are arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück camp, along with their loved ones. Here, they face down an infamous Nazi doctor and Arlette’s son is stolen from her—never to be seen again. A decade later, Josie is working for U.S. Army intelligence to hunt down that same doctor while a mysterious man tells Arlette he may have found her son. The Golden Doves will embark on a quest across Europe and, ultimately, to French Guiana, putting themselves in grave danger to secure the justice they deserve and protect the ones they learned to love again. With The Golden Doves, Martha Hall Kelly has crafted an unforgettable story about the fates of Nazi fugitives in the wake of World War II—and the unsung females spies who risked it all to bring them to justice. 

About The Berlin Letters: Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison. From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she’s expected to quickly climb the career ladder at the CIA. But while her coworkers have moved on to thrilling Cold War assignments—especially in the exhilarating era of the late 1980s—Luisa’s work remains stuck in the past decoding messages from World War II. Journalist Haris Voekler grew up a proud East Berliner. But as his eyes open to the realities of postwar East Germany, he realizes that the Soviet promises of a better future are not coming to fruition. After the Berlin Wall goes up, Haris finds himself separated from his young daughter and all alone after his wife dies. There’s only one way to reach his family—by sending coded letters to his father-in-law who lives on the other side of the Iron Curtain. When Luisa Voekler discovers a secret cache of letters written by the father she has long presumed dead, she learns the truth about her grandfather’s work, her father’s identity, and why she has never progressed in her career. With little more than a rudimentary plan and hope, she journeys to Berlin and risks everything to free her father and get him out of East Berlin alive. As Luisa and Haris take turns telling their stories, events speed toward one of the twentieth century’s most dramatic moments—the fall of the Berlin Wall and that night’s promise of freedom, truth, and reconciliation for those who lived, for twenty-eight years, behind the bleak shadow of the Iron Curtain’s most iconic symbol.