I’ve worked with the delightful Amy Lynn Green for many years through her role as Bethany House’s Fiction Publicist and had the pleasure of meeting her in Nashville in 2016. It was a joy to talk all things books with a fellow literary lover like Amy. I also followed her blog for many years and her posts were always beautifully penned, humble, insightful, and provided the best kind of encouragement and challenge. As such, it came as no surprise when Amy announced she was contracted to write novels ~ she is a wordsmith at heart and I am so excited that we all have the opportunity to read a story from her in the near future, November 3, 2020 to be exact.

Today it’s my privilege to share in the cover reveal of Amy’s Things We Didn’t Say, an epistolary historical story with an eye-catching cover and a premise that sounds brilliant, don’t you think?

Headstrong Johanna Berglund, a linguistics student at the University of Minnesota, has very definite plans for her future . . . plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she left behind there. But the US Army wants her to work as a translator at a nearby camp for German POWs.

Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy town exploding with hostility. Most patriotic citizens want nothing to do with German soldiers laboring in their fields, and they’re not afraid to criticize those who work at the camp as well. When Johanna describes the trouble to her friend Peter Ito, a language instructor at a school for military intelligence officers, he encourages her to give the town that rejected her a second chance.

As Johanna interacts with the men of the camp and censors their letters home, she begins to see the prisoners in a more sympathetic light. But advocating for better treatment makes her enemies in the community, especially when charismatic German spokesman Stefan Werner begins to show interest in Johanna and her work. The longer Johanna wages her home-front battle, the more the lines between compassion and treason become blurred–and it’s no longer clear whom she can trust.

Amy Lynn Green is a publicist by day and a freelance writer on nights and weekends. She was the 2014 winner of the Family Fiction short story contest, and her articles have been featured in Crosswalk, Focus on the Family magazines, and other faith-based publications over the past 10 years. This is her first novel.

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