What is this? In a city of the dead, long since ruined and far from human civilization, lives a single human child. His name is Will, and he s being raised.
Jennifer Robson has always been obsessed with history.
The daughter of a history professor, Robson holds a strong academic background herself and has ended up channeling her love for the past into writing historical fiction. Her sixth and latest,
Our Darkest Night, hits shelves Tuesday.
The novel is set in Venice in the autumn of 1943, and it follows young Jewish woman Antonine Mazin as she leaves her home city for the countryside with Nico Geradi, a Christian farmer who had plans to enter the priesthood. He pledges to keep Nina safe, agreeing to pose as a married couple to protect Nina from the suspicious Nazi officers that dog their every step.