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Germany 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago she and her younger brother Abek were the only members of their family to be sent to the right awayGermany 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely shattered: Three years ago she and her younger brother Abek were the only members of their family to be sent to the right away from the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Everyone else--her parents her grandmother radiant Aunt Maja--they went left.Zofia's last words to her brother were a promise: Abek to Zofia A to Z. When I find you again we will fill our alphabet. Now her journey to fulfill that vow takes her through Poland and Germany and into a displaced persons camp where everyone she meets is trying to piece together a future from a painful past: Miriam desperately searching for the twin she was separated from after they survived medical experimentation. Breine a former heiress who now longs only for a simple wedding with her new fiancé. And Josef who guards his past behind a wall of secrets and is beautiful and strange and magnetic all at once.But the deeper Zofia digs the more impossible her search seems. How can she find one boy in a sea of the missing? In the rubble of a broken continent Zofia must delve into a mystery whose answers could break her--or help her rebuild her world.(less)