The American Wife’s Secret by Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger is the third book in The Diplomat’s Wife series. This series contains novels written about the struggles of an American woman and a Jewish businessman who met, fell in love, and married before the Third Reich came into being.
Edgar Ragatz is a successful businessman in Berlin and meets Kitty Larsson, a senator’s daughter. Although he is older than she, they fall in love and marry. She is Christian and Edgar is Jewish. Although Hitler is well on his way to becoming the Führer, Edgar thinks that his position in the Business world will save him from the Jewish pogroms.
To save Kitty, they divorce, and Edgar finds himself in peril. He goes underground and works with the resistance. Kitty finds herself working for the British and The American spy networks. Edgar goes missing, but Kitty is tasked with increasing the resistance movement in Austria ahead of the inevitable Soviet presence. Her main desire is to find Edgar in the midst of all this chaos.
In the meantime, her resistance organization is compromised and she is taken into custody by the Gestapo. She is tortured for many long months but does not break. She is finally freed because of the Soviet presence and continues her quest to find Edgar.
I dare not continue to tell the reader of this review what transpires because it would spoil the novel for them. However, I must say that this novel was so intriguing and mesmerizing that I could not put it down. I have read all three novels in this series and each one was a treasure for a Historical fiction buff like me.
I was granted a Kindle copy of this novel by Bookouture through NetGalley and was not required to give a review.
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