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Greta Zolner has never been loved<\/strong> \u2014 not the way a daughter deserves to be loved. <br><br>She gets up before dawn. She scrubs until her hands bleed. She watches her beautiful little sister receive everything while she receives nothing. When she falls in love with Hermann, a gentle man at the village market, her father beats her for it. Her only friend is Ruth, a young Jewish girl from the local library who shares her love of books. In Ruth\u2019s warm, loving home, beneath the gentle care of her bubbie, Greta finds something she thought she\u2019d lost forever\u2014a place to belong. Then a wealthy family from Berlin arrive at their small village. They need a wife for their son. A simple girl. Innocent. Someone who won&#8217;t ask questions. Greta is sent away \u2014 delivered to a cold house, a faithless husband, and a world of secrets she knows nothing about. She has no idea that a woman is watching from the shadows. A woman whose life her husband has destroyed. <br><br><strong>A woman with nothing left to lose.<\/strong><br><br>Only Ella, the old cook, takes Greta&#8217;s hand and whispers what she has seen. <em>You are not here by accident. Someday, Greta\u2014you will save lives the world cannot afford to lose.<\/em> <em><strong>A heartbreaking story of survival, sacrifice, and the courage of one ordinary woman on the eve of history&#8217;s darkest chapter.<\/strong><\/em> <strong>Book 1 in Roberta Kagan&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong><em>Duty and Betrayal<\/em> series.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide is-light\" style=\"min-height:430px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-typology-bg-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\"><div id=\"mbdb_book_grid_824\" class=\"mbm-book-grid-div\" style=\"padding-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"mbm-book-grid-heading1\">Series: Duty and Betrayal<\/h2><div class=\"mbm-book-grid-description mbm-book-grid-description-1\"><\/div><span itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Book\"  class=\"mbdb_float_grid\" style=\"height: 360px; width: 310px;\"><div class=\"mbdb_grid_image\"><a id=\"book_808\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" class=\"mbm-book-grid-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertakagan.com\/?mbdb_book=a-daughters-duty\"><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" style=\"height: 310px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertakagan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/8106hQVFuQL._SL1500_-e1792415897481.jpg\"  alt=\"Book Cover: A Daughter&#039;s Duty\"  data-book=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/div><span class=\"mbdb_grid_title\" itemprop=\"name\"><a itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" class=\"mbm-book-grid-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertakagan.com\/?mbdb_book=a-daughters-duty\">A Daughter&#039;s Duty<\/a><\/span><\/span><span itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Book\"  class=\"mbdb_float_grid\" style=\"height: 360px; width: 310px;\"><div class=\"mbdb_grid_image\"><a id=\"book_814\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" class=\"mbm-book-grid-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertakagan.com\/?mbdb_book=after-the-betrayal\"><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" style=\"height: 310px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertakagan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/81iAV7H6FL._SY466_.jpg\"  alt=\"Book Cover: After the Betrayal\"  data-book=\"814\" \/><\/a><\/div><span class=\"mbdb_grid_title\" itemprop=\"name\"><a itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" class=\"mbm-book-grid-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertakagan.com\/?mbdb_book=after-the-betrayal\">After the Betrayal<\/a><\/span><\/span><span itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Book\"  class=\"mbdb_float_grid\" style=\"height: 360px; width: 310px;\"><div class=\"mbdb_grid_image\"><a id=\"book_811\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" class=\"mbm-book-grid-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertakagan.com\/?mbdb_book=my-sons-duty\"><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" style=\"height: 310px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robertakagan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/81AOPtEQGWL._SY466_.jpg\"  alt=\"Book Cover: My Son&#039;s Duty\"  data-book=\"811\" \/><\/a><\/div><span class=\"mbdb_grid_title\" itemprop=\"name\"><a itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" class=\"mbm-book-grid-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertakagan.com\/?mbdb_book=my-sons-duty\">My Son&#039;s Duty<\/a><\/span><\/span><div class=\"mbm-book-grid-bottom-description mbm-book-grid-bottom-description-1\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n                <div class=\"ml-form-embed\"\n                     data-account=\"3608405:y3x1z0e4v7\"\n                     data-form=\"5074589:p2r9t7\">\n                <\/div>\n            \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duty and Betrayal From Book 1: Germany, 1912. 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