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  • Into the Burning Dawn

  • Heartbreaking and Gripping World War 2 Historical Fiction Set in Italy
  • By: Natalie Meg Evans
  • Narrated by: Polly Edsell
  • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Into the Burning Dawn

By: Natalie Meg Evans
Narrated by: Polly Edsell
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Summary

In the terrace courtyard of the palazzo overlooking a sparkling bay, the scent of ripening lemons filled the air. His deep brown eyes gazed into hers with determination and longing. "Will you do it? Risk everything and join us?"

Twenty-one-year-old Imogen Fitzgerald was raised in an English orphanage and never knew her parents. So when World War Two breaks out, she refuses to leave the life she’s worked so hard to build for herself, teaching English to little Marco and Eloisa in the beautiful Italian city of Naples. With their father, Giancarlo, away fighting for the fascists, there’s no one else to care for these lost children. Imogen’s dark hair and perfect Italian will protect her for now, but if anyone discovers her secret identity as an enemy of Italy, Marco and Eloisa will be left with no one.

As the shadows of bomber planes darken the azure blue waters of the bay, the one person Imogen can depend on is Fabrizio, the children’s uncle. He’s never seen eye-to-eye with their father, and Imogen is forbidden to speak to him...but whenever they secretly meet in the lemon groves, Imogen instantly feels safe. Fabrizio talks passionately of the resistenza, the underground group fighting the regime, and soon Imogen herself is involved - smuggling food along the rocky coast and even supplying information on Giancarlo to help fight the Nazis and end this awful war.

But when Giancarlo suddenly returns, injured from the fighting, Imogen is shocked to find him much changed. Rather than the fascist sympathiser she knew and resented, she sees in Giancarlo a man who would do anything to protect his children and his beloved Italy. Was she wrong to expose him as a traitor?

Torn between two sides, Imogen’s own life is thrown into terrible danger when a child goes missing and her secret identity is exposed...did she put her trust in the wrong man? And is it too late to save herself and the children from the horrors of war?

Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, The Tuscan Child, and All the Light We Cannot See.

©2020 Natalie Meg Evans (P)2020 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.
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Very gripping

Really great book and thoroughly enjoyed it- I just wish the ending was a bit longer - I didn’t want it to end

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