
Genre:
Historical Fiction
Themes:
Angsty
Disguised as a Man
Fake Relationship / Marriage of Convenience
Hiking / Mountain Climbing / Outdoor Sport
Ice Queen
Loss / Grieving / Widow
Married or Established Couple
Mature Lead 40+
Menage / Polyamory
Wartime
Heat Level:
Hot & Steamy (full, graphic description of sexual acts occurs and may include crude language)
Archetypes:
Actor / Performer
Celebrity / Socialite / Model
CEO / Executive
Clergy / Priest / Rabbi / Nun
Doctor / Nurse / EMT / Midwife
Politician / Diplomat
Resistance Fighter
Royalty / Aristocrat
Geographic Location:
Continental Europe
Setting:
Academic / School / University
Castle / Manor / Estate
Foreign Country
Hospital / Medical / Treatment Facility
Sacred Space / Place of Worship
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Queer
Femme
Butch / Stud
Protagonist Identity:
Jewish
Lies of Omission
Golden Crown Literary Award (Goldie)
Rainbow Award
The Passing Rites Series, Book 3
By Elena Graf
When your only solution is to tell the truth or more lies of omission.
In 1938, Margarethe von Stahle is desperately trying to practice ethical medicine despite the Nazi policy of “racial hygiene” that is forcing doctors to collaborate in the extermination of the handicapped and mentally ill. She has always avoided politics, but now she must decide whether to remain on the sidelines or to act on her convictions. At the same time, she is struggling to hold her family together, despite intrigue, secrecy, and an unforgivable indiscretion. The people she holds most dear are conspiring against her for their own ends. Neither of Margarethe’s children are playing to script, frustrating her hopes for the future of the House of Langenberg-Edelheim. Perhaps the only solution is to face the truth…or tell more lies of omission.
This timely novel is the third volume of the Passing Rites series, which follows the aristocratic Stahle family through the 20th century. Set in the last years before World War II, Lies of Omission addresses the challenge of resistance to the Third Reich. Despite great danger, some doctors honored their Hippocratic Oath. Ordinary citizens, working in small groups, came to the aid of the disenfranchised. A few brave souls managed to keep their moral compass, while all around them, a nation descended into collective lunacy.