The year is 1943. Christoph von Richter is a man caught in the crossroads between two opposing ideologies, whose clash reverberates like thunder through his life and the lives of people all around him. Ironically, it begins to appear more and more that his greatest opposition may come from near--and inside--him and that his only hope may lie in the very people he is sworn to oppose.

Eva DuBois, a woman with a secret, soon finds herself entrapped in a web of seemingly contradictory secrets. A strange twist of events brings her face-to-face with a man to whom she is deeply drawn...but a man whom she is sworn to oppose.

Set against the backdrop of occupied France and carefully crafted to fit with real-life places and events, this story confronts its characters with confounding dilemmas and inconceivable alliances as they struggle desperately to find an escape from the terror that is the middle ground between the cross and the swastika.