The House of Spark

It's the 1950s in Romania, after the fall of the Romanian monarch, a time of terror for its citizens. Stalin's communist regime influenced the creation of the Securitate, a police agency used as an instrument of manipulation and control over the country and its economics, education, and even its very culture.

Young Virginia is a university student whose life of tragedy--including her father's death and her brother succumbing to polio pre-vaccine days--has given her a strength beyond her year...