A New Beginning - Courage, Conflict, and the High Price of War

A New BeginningNorthern France 1944. Battling against the traumas of their past, two strangers set out on a flight across a war-torn Europe in search of a new life together. But their path is soon filled with deadly enemies.

With two of their men wounded a company of English soldiers takes shelter in a convent. Also seeking sanctuary there is Joliane, a young Frenchwoman who is wanted by the local Marquis for supposedly collaborating with the Gestapo. Discovering that when they leave, she will be taken away and shot, Albert Clemens, the company sergeant, decides to take her with them. Traumatized by events in his past, Clemens asks her to run away with him and begin a new life together. But the past is not about to let them escape its clutches and while hope beckons with one hand, retribution reaches out with the other.

Barry Cole is a master in telling exciting tales with fascinating characters. His stories are authentic and thrilling and his historical novels are true page turners.

Find out if Clemens and Joliane find their sanctuary behind the lines of the allies and if they escape one of the most dangerous Gestapo killers still hunting them undetected.