Für Elise: A Novel

Gold Medal Winner, Historical Fiction: Romance -- 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).

He survived the POW camp by holding onto hope. She survived the war by letting it go.

In 1956, more than a decade after the end of World War II, Hans Becker is finally released from a Soviet POW camp and returns to Germany. The reunion is disheartening-his beloved Dresden is largely blackened rubble, and his feelings of disorientation and melancholy hinder his attempt to revive the life-and love-h...