Roy Jacobsen

The long war is over and Ingrid Barroy leaves the island that bears her name to search for the father of her child. Alexander, the Russian captive who survived the sinking of prisoner ship the Rigel made an attempt to cross the mountains to Sweden. Ingrid will follow in his footsteps, carrying her babe in arms, the child's dark eyes the only proof that she ever knew him. And before her journey's end she will be forced to ask herself how well she knows the man she is risking everything to find. The third novel in the Barrøy Trilogy Series.

Barrøy Island off the coast of Norway - a holdfast for a single family, their livestock and their crops. And their fears. There is a taint passed down the Barrøy line, and Hans and Maria Barrøy fear their daughter Ingrid may be affected. Ingrid is sent to serve in a rich family, but when tragedy strikes she finds herself responsible not only for two orphaned children, but for Barrøy Island itself. If they are to survive, she must learn how to tame this remote paradise.

But Ingrid is alone on Barrøy, the island that bears her name, while the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new more terrible war and Norway is under the Nazi boot.When the bodies from a bombed troopship begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid cannot know that one will be alive and warm enough to erase a lifetime of loneliness.She cannot know what she will suffer in protecting her lover from the Germans and their Norwegian collaborators, nor the journey she will face, wrenched from her island once more, to return home.Or that, amid the suffering of war, among refugees fleeing famine and scorched-earth retreats, she will be given a gift whose value is beyond measure.