The Eleventh Hour

Secret of the Rose Series Book OneBaron von Dortmann cares for his family with the same passion and devotion with which he tends the roses in his beloved garden. Amid the placid rhythms of farm life, the baron looks over his world with both a father's and a gardener's eyes, teaching his daughter Sabina life lessons about God, creation, and love. Already, she has caught the eye of a young American, Matthew, and their neighbor's son, Gustav.Suddenly, a storm sweeps over neighboring Poland-the thunder and lightning of the German blitzkrieg-which will change the Dortmanns' lives forever. The baron will be left with a most difficult decision. Sabina will be left with the secret of the rose.The Eleventh Hour is the beginning of an epic four-book saga spanning from World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall - a sweeping story of faith, courage, sacrifice, and love that readers return to again and again.