K. Lyn Wurth

The Darkwater Liar's Account K. Lyn Wurth

You may rewrite history, but only the truth can save you. London, 1930. As young Bridget?s German immigrant mother deteriorates in a locked bedchamber, she resents her scholarly father?s control and exploitation. Failing to escape him as a liar and a thief, she finds herself abruptly disowned. Alpine Bavaria, 1936. Travel to the Winter Olympiad offers a handsome German officer and an idealized cause as ?Gitta,? a Nazi nurse, wife and mother. Yet, after the Reich, after everything burns, even new loves and a grounded homeland in America can?t reverse the tide of Bridget?s youthful complicity with Nazi eugenics. Darkwater Creek, Nebraska, 1968. Civil unrest and assassinations fuel Bridget?s regrets. As she denies and conceals a legacy of murder and family devastation, accelerating symptoms warn that her mother?s genetic disease is also her own. When a roadside explosion of family violence propels Bridget to her farmhouse cellar for refuge, she finds a tattered ledger, long since abandoned by a farmer named Laura. Here she aligns the perfect confession and collaboration; resolved to alter the surge of history, Bridget reclaims her memories and calculates her receipts, before yet another person dies on her account. *This edition includes a bonus True to Story reading guide for individuals and book clubs.