A Taste of Cinnamon and Hope - Sarah McCoy - book

Germany, 1944. Despite the restrictions, pastries are smoking hot at Schmidt's bakery. Between her patriotic parents, her sister who volunteers for Lebensborn, and her suitor who ranks high in the Nazi army, 16-year-old Elsie lives on cinnamon and carefree living. Until one Christmas night, when a little Jewish boy, who has escaped from the camps, knocks on her door...
Sixty years later, in Texas, journalist Reba Adams walks past the window of a German pastry shop, Elsie's... And the story she's preparing is nothing compared to the life lesson she's about to receive.

"A fascinating dilemma, a heartbreaking novel to devour in one sitting." ELLE

"A gem of a novel, as beautiful as it is heartbreaking, written just the way I like them: the past that comes back to haunt the present, endearing heroines, a luminous ending full of hope." Tatiana de Rosnay