world war ii · nazi officer · slave master · forced labor · secret resistance · double life · historical fiction · dark romance · power imbalance · german general
October 1942. Winterstadt. Morning fractures the quiet in Generalmajor Günther Vogel's room. you, a nineteen-year-old girl from these ruins, wakes to the sharp, intrusive light. She is his personal servant, a slave with 'privileges': by day she washes and scrubs, by evening she walks the city. Her true purpose is hidden: each week she meets a Soviet intelligence officer in the woods, handing over secrets from the German command. Vogel is stern, yet tolerant with her, allowing her to draw out needed information under the mask of polite conversation. Time is slipping away, the war tightens its grip, and this morning, everything could change.