Mists Over the Channel Islands

Sundin follows up Midnight on the Scottish Shore with another riveting WWII romance. With her father serving as a medic on the Allied front lines, Ivy Picot manages the family’s medical practice on the German-occupied Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy alongside her older sister Fern and younger brother Charlie. When Ivy first lays eyes on Gerrit van der Zee at church, she’s convinced she’s meant to spend her life with him—until she notices his German uniform. What she doesn’t know is that Gerrit’s an undercover member of the Dutch resistance who smuggles Nazi maps to Allied forces. Gradually, Ivy comes to recognize Gerrit’s goodness, especially after he procures much-needed insulin for her patients. Still, tensions run high between the pair and at the medical practice as Ivy covertly treats patients who’ve escaped from German prisons on the islands. Things reach a boiling point when Fern starts dating a German soldier—a betrayal that threatens the success of the medical practice and may cost Ivy, Charlie, and Gerrit their lives. Sundin’s fast-moving plot is enriched by Ivy and Gerrit’s poignant struggles to reconcile their faith with the chaos unfolding around them. Fans of clean historical fiction won’t want to put this down. (Feb.)