The Women in the Castle -- Jessica Shattuck

<p><strong>INSTANT </strong><em><strong>NEW YORK TIMES</strong></em><strong> BESTSELLER </strong><strong> - FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTER</strong></p><p><strong>GoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist </strong></p><p><strong>Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates.--<em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>A masterful epic.--<em>People magazine</em></strong></p><p><strong>Mesmerizing . . . <em>The Women in the Castle</em> stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history's most tragic eras.--<em>USA Today</em></strong></p><p><em>Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold</em></p><p>Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book <em>The Hazards of Good Breeding.</em></p><p> Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband's ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband's brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows.</p><p>First Marianne rescues