An un-put-downable novel of love, trust, honour, resistance, and the saving grace of humanity.
Tomasin West knows there's a darkness building inside her. Haunted by nightmares of the witch-hunts, she sees The Terror happening all over again in the actions of the Nazis, and a dangerous anger begins to clamour inside her. She's a midwife - a healer - but when the SOE - The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - recruits for spies and saboteurs Tommie signs up. A latter-day witch-hunt is raging across Europe, and now she's a saboteur, so something is going to burn.
The Welsh-born son of a dead German war hero, Peter Brandt is an officer in the German army, just like his father before him - except that Peter is spying for Michael Hendry, a maverick British Intelligence chief. Billeted in the infamous allied officers' POW camp at Colditz Castle, Peter becomes involved with the ill-fated German resistance, and finds himself captivated by their lost Germany. The complications pile up when he learns that the new prisoner, an odd little woman, is another of Hendry's agents, thrown into the castle as bait in a trap for the officers.
As the stone-cold castle becomes a crucible of prejudice, hate and unexpected humanity, Tommie discovers that the distinction between enemy and friend, healing and retribution, love and hate can be uncertain. When those she loves are threatened, she confronts a devastating question; is she a healer? Or is she something else entirely?
Emotional, gripping, heartbreaking and healing, The Seventh Room is the first book in a two-part series, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Code Name Sapphire, The Rose Code and Truth and Treason.
