Beneath the Canopy By Lynda Riggers

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Beneath the Canopy

Lynda Riggers

Inspired by real events and survivor memories

WWII. Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Two kids. One war.‎

Johanna runs for her life. As bombs fall and gunfire echoes, an air raid tears her world apart ‎and when the smoke clears, her baby sister is gone. Fleeing with her pregnant mother, Johanna ‎now faces hunger, fear, and a winter that will strip away childhood, test her strength, and end ‎months later with her in the same clothes.‎

Orphaned by war, Rein steals from a Nazi bakery, runs with friends whose loyalties are ‎shifting, and hides the fact that his brother is in the Resistance. When a German soldier spares ‎his life, Rein is left questioning everything—especially how to stay good in a world gone ‎wrong.‎

A chance meeting. A shared loaf of bread. And Johanna and Rein’s friendship becomes their ‎greatest act of defiance.‎