"As NAZI FORCES TIGHTEN the noose, American-born Loralei Kepler, daughter of a missionary family, flees Brussels ahead of the Blitzkrieg. But is anywhere safe from Adolf Hitler's evil grasp? Loralei's harrowing flight leads her into the arms of needy child refugees, who have sacrificed everything in exchange for their lives, and toward a mysterious figure, who closely guards an age-old secret" --Cover, p. 4.

Tells the story of Sara, an orphaned Jewish twelve-year-old in 1919 Russia, and her daring journey to Poland, Budapest, and eventually Palestine, interspersed with chapters narrated by Sara's daughter, a Zionist in Palestine in the days just before Israel becomes a nation.