​CATHERINE HOKIN - HISTORICAL FICTION INSPIRED BY WORLD WAR II 

Germany, 1941. Noemi’s hazel eyes shine with tears as she takes Pascal’s hand. ‘Please don’t go,’ she begs him. ‘If you leave me now, we might never find each other again…’

When Pascal kisses Noemi and presses his mother’s silver locket into her hands, it is a moment she has been longing for her whole life. Growing up they were fearless, exploring the wild mountains in the Bavarian countryside together. But when war is declared, overnight their love becomes forbidden – Noemi is Jewish, while Pascal is being pressured to become a Hitler Youth officer by his father.

When Noemi’s parents are captured and taken to Dachau, she knows her hometown is no longer safe. With time running out, Pascal smuggles her onto a train, praying she will survive until the war is over. Devastated, he watches the train leave, promising himself that one day he will find the girl who took his heart and locket.

Noemi’s life on the run plunges her into new dangers, but she never loses hope that one day she will make her way home to her family again. She tells herself that family can never now include Pascal, but still she remembers the pendant he gave her, and hope flickers in her chest like a flame, that one day somehow they might reunite…

But as the world burns around her, will she have the strength to find and forgive him? And if she does, will their love last – or will the war’s shadows tear them both apart forever?

 CAN FORGIVENESS TRULY EXIST WHEN YOU'RE STANDING ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF A WAR?


THE SECRET LOCKET

A girl who's lost everything, a boy who makes the wrong choices, a love pulled apart before it's barely begun.

As war ravages Germany & families are ripped apart, can two broken people find their way back to each other, and to forgiveness? 


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 Part of The Secret Locket takes place in the Warsaw Ghetto. If that's a topic that interests you, I've written a piece for the HWA's Historia Magazines that examines the question of ghettos in more detail.


​Segregation and Suffering in the Cities of Occupied Europe