The Enemy Between Us by Melinda Sue Sanchez -- Review

About the Book

ITALY, 1943

As war tears her country apart, Franca Chessari's sole focus is on supporting her family amid Nazi occupation. But when her parents, both high-ranking partisans, go missing, Franca is compelled to take action---even if it means crossing enemy lines to save those she loves.

Peter Weimer is a German soldier forced into a war he abhors. When he can take no more of the Nazi atrocities he’s been forced to witness, he deserts the German army—a decision that brands him as an enemy.

Franca and Peter were nothing more than two strangers from enemy countries, but when their paths collide amid the horrors of war, they are swept into an epic journey of chilling danger, unparalleled courage, and a sweeping passion that could cost them everything they have fought for.

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About the Author

Melinda Sue Sanchez has been passionate about books and the worlds and people they bring to life since childhood. She wrote her first book in second grade and her first poetry at age ten.
Her love of reading and writing blossomed into writing full novels and resulted in her first book, The Fisherman's Daughter being published by Covenant Books in 2018.

Her next novel, The Enemy Between Us will be released in July 2020 and will continue the saga of The Fisherman's Daughter. We'll see Franca and Peter, two mortal enemies forced into hiding from the Nazis together, and fighting a forbidden attraction to one another as they traverse the battlefields of Italy to save their families.
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Melinda lives in AZ with her handsome husband, beautiful family. several dogs, a cat, bird, snake, turtle and hundreds of books.

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Review

Author Melinda Sue Sanchez shares a heart-wrenching WWII story, including a unique point of view of the Italians, drawing readers into her tale.  The first part of the story reads much like women’s fiction, but as the story develops, the romance does as well.  This story is about two “enemies,” Franca and Peter, that because of the war meet and develop a relationship, which they fight to some degree, especially Franca.  But eventually Franca let’s Peter break down her defenses and they fall in love, regardless to the fact that he is a German Nazi.  Sanchez has crafted a beautiful and stunning adventure filled romance story that readers will delight in.
 
Genre: historical, romance, WWII
Publisher: Covenant Communications
Publication date: July 6, 2020
Number of pages: 288
 
Disclosure statement: A complimentary review copy of this book was provided from tour groups, publishers, publicists, and authors, including NetGalley, OR was borrowed from the library, including OverDrive, Or borrowed from Kindle Unlimited OR pre-ordered/purchased for review.  A review was not required and all views and opinions expressed are my own.