Joyce Gabriel Bücher

This is the story of Betty Schimmel and the two loves of her life. The first is her childhood sweetheart from Hungary, Richie. During the Nazi occupation they would meet after curfew and talk of a love that would outlive the privation they endured in the ghetto. But the lovers were separated when Betty and her family were forced on a death march to the notorious concentration camp at Mauthausen. After liberation, Betty spent desperate months searching for her beloved Richie until, after much grieving, she gave him up for dead and married Otto, a fellow death camp survivor - but she never forgot her first love. Three decades later they are reunited by chance in Budapest, a city inevitably charged with the unfulfilled dreams of their youth. Now a wife and mother, Betty's past is something she can only reawaken at a price.