Susan Finlay Bloodlines & Barbed Wire: A Tangled Roots Historical Mystery

Lucas Landry receives an email from a teenager, Mikayla Carson, who thinks her legal guardian and greatgrandmother, Elisabeth Hoffman, is related to his greatgrandfather, Franz Nagel. Shes not certain, because Elisabeth suffers from dementia. Mikayla wants Lucas to help her find out more about her familys past. As a genealogist, Lucas is eager to untangle the family roots. He travels to Arizona to meet Mikayla, her younger brother, and Elisabeth, and begins reading old Nagelfamily diaries, but his eagerness dampens when he discovers Nazis in their bloodline. Further complicating the task, he cant even figure out how Elisabeth is related to those Nagels, and she cant explain, either her mind is a jumbled mess and her answers to his questions are unreliable. He returns home, ready to give up until two events pull him back inhis discovery of an old newspaper clipping about the wartime murder of one of the Nagels, and Mikaylas frantic call about the danger of her family being torn apart unless a family member steps in and helps. Against his wifes wishes, Lucas returns to Arizona and delves deeper into the WWII diaries, learning about a Lebensborn home, a Polish concentration camp, and the tragic lives of three Nagel teens their fathers young mistress and two nieces. But will those diaries tell what he really needs to know and empower him to help Elisabeth and her greatgrandchildren? | Susan Finlay Bloodlines & Barbed Wire: A Tangled Roots Historical Mystery