What I Left for You (Echoes of the Past, #3) by Liz Tolsma

 A Family’s Ties Were Broken in Poland of 1939
 
1939
Helena Kostyszak is an oddity—an educated female ethnic minority lecturing at a university in Krakow at the outbreak of WWII. When the Germans close the university and force Jews into the ghetto, she spirits out a friend’s infant daughter and flees to her small village in the southern hills. Helena does everything in her power to protect her family, but it may not be enough. It will take all of her strength and God’s intervention for both of them to survive the war and the ethnic cleansing to come.
 
2023
Recently unengaged social worker McKenna Muir is dealt an awful blow when a two-year-old she’s been working with is murdered. It’s all too much to take, so her friend suggests she dive into her family’s past like she’s always wanted. Putting distance between herself and her problems might help her heal, so she and her friend head on Sabbatical to Poland. But what McKenna discovers about her family shocks everyone, including one long-lost family member.

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About The Author

Passionate might best describe Liz Tolsma. She loves writing, research, and editing. Her passion shone through in her first novel which was a double award finalist. On any given day, you might find her pulling weeds in her perennial garden, walking her hyperactive dog, or curled up with a good book. Nothing means more to her than her family. She’s married her high-school sweetheart twenty-eight years ago. Get her talking about international adoption, and you might never get her to stop. She and her husband adopted three children, including a son who is a U.S. Marine, and two daughters.

My Review

This is a riveting page turner, I had to know how things turned out. A dual time, a great granddaughter in the present time, and her great grandmother living in Poland during the time of Evil, WWII.

We are with this young woman, as she tries to put her life together after devastating happenings, she and a dear friend journey for answers of what happened back during this horrible time, they head to Poland, and are looking for answers, including some surprise information from the Baba looking for someone very special!

This an eye opening read, and once they were safe, were they? This is also about the author and her family heritage, a small group of Polish Greek Russian, and how persecuted they were.

Be sure to read the extensive author's notes, insight as to where she come from!

I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Barbour, and was not required to give a positive review.