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January Book Sale: ‘The Stolen Children of War’ is in Amazon Prime Reading by Jina Bacarr

I love this photo of ladies standing in line with their precious books to give to sailors and soldiers during a war that happened more than a hundred years ago. (Can you believe it?)

We’re so fortunate today we have e-Books. It gets even better when as an author, your book goes into Amazon Prime Reading… globally! If you’re a Prime member, ‘The Stolen Children of War‘ is available to read for FREE (pick up your copy before March 31st).

So, what is my book about? In one word (make that three), being a mom. The joys and little things moms love… like hugging your babies and watching them smile when they befriend a baby elephant (not the norm, but it happens in my story). My heroine in book 1 of the series ‘Lia’s Story’ is a circus performer who saves Jewish and Roma children from the Nazis (her own baby was stolen from her years ago). Lia joins the Resistance and will do anything to save the children.

The fate of these children was more awful than you can imagine.

When Jewish mothers arrived at Auschwitz holding tight onto their children, they had no idea their little ones would be ‘stolen’ from them and murdered after the selection. Innocent babes with chubby cheeks and big eyes along with young boys still in short pants and shy little girls in pigtails.

Children died during the Holocaust. No one knows exactly how many, but the estimate is around one and half million Jewish children who often died alone without their mother’s arms around them, her gentle voice whispering in their ear.

Hug your children tight today. Even if they tower over you and aren’t babies anymore. Because somewhere in the world, a mother can’t do that. Her tears have dried, but not the pain in her heart. That’s what we’re still fighting for. To save the children. God help us.

Jina

‘The Stolen Children of War’

A story told in Book 1 of this 2 book series about children hidden in plain sight in Occupied Paris 1943. In the circus.

If it’s not horrible enough my heroine Lia de Montieri, Queen of the Trapeze, has to fight the Nazis and a despicable Gestapo man in 1943 Occupied Paris, she also comes up against a depraved creature known as ‘The Magician’ because of his amazing ability to restore a woman’s face…

He lurks in the shadows only coming out to threaten what Lia holds most dear…

‘The Stolen Children of War’ is the story of a mother’s sacrifice, make that ‘mothers’, when Lia helps a Jewish woman about to be deported by helping her little girl and young boy escape.

And oh, there’s that adorable baby elephant, too.

‘The Stolen Children of War’

Amazon Kindle:
US: https://a.co/d/7iR9Xar
UK: https://amzn.eu/d/9RF8E77
AU https://amzn.asia/d/9hlZVS3

It is 1943 in Nazi-occupied Paris, and nobody is safe. Nobody, except perhaps one small group of people, who’ve always existed outside the law… in the circus.
Boldwood Books

What family isn’t a circus? My family have starring roles in telling the story of ‘The Stolen Children War’ in my old home movies.