Even the Faithful: A Novel

In a time when love meant silence and sacrifice, how far would you go for mercy?

Dayton, Ohio, 1946. Lotte Walheim is a lonely housewife in a marriage of convenience, bound not by love but by necessity. Her husband, Albert, manages her father's soap factory and maintains a long-hidden relationship with his high school sweetheart, James. In a society swift to condemn, Albert and Lotte offer each other safety, if not affection.

Then Father Henry Werther arrives—young, devout, and quietly magnet...