Not to Be Forgiven

North Africa is a long way from Hiram Springs, Nebraska, and World War II strikes home when Sis Greggory's brother, Danny, is sent there to fight the Nazis. Japan and Germany are conquering country after country; the army builds a B-17 bomber training base and the town fills up with troops. Long-time neighbors are suddenly despised "aliens."With most able-bodied men away in the armed services, town folks are horrified when the government builds a prisoner of war camp and ships in German POWs to work on local farms. Sis throws herself into home-front activities to help the troops, and while working in the family Victory Garden she meets Horst, a German POW. All Germans are monsters to Sis, but Horst is friendly and funny. Uneasy, Sis can't decide. Is he friend? Or foe? The question looms large in Sis' life. When she thinks she knows, she takes an action she will regret the rest of her life. "Not to be Forgiven explores the explosive emotions that ripped through the home front as World War II raged on and on. With the sure-handed strokes of a master writer, Peterson tells of friendship marred by hatred and fear, and of the way in which love and understanding can finally redeem the past. A magical and mesmerizing story." Margaret Cole, author of Buffalo Bill's Dead Now, a Wind River Mystery "Not to be Forgiven is a haunting novel about how the war twists the life of a young girl living thousands of miles from World War II battlefields. Both historian and storyteller, Nancy M. Peterson, whose nonfiction books on the West are classics, writes how a wartime friendship flares into hatred, leaving scars that cause a lifetime of regret. Set against a background of wartime rural America, Not to be Forgiven is not to be forgotten." Sandra Dallas, author of True Sisters and The Quilt Walk