When the Engines Fell Silent

She was ordered to destroy the train. Her sister was inside it.Crimea, 1944.Lieutenant Anya Morozova has learned to trust three things: her fragile U-2 biplane, the navigator flying behind her, and the orders that keep them alive.Then, during a night bombing run, a lantern flashes from a German military train below.Three. One. Three.A childhood signal known only to Anya and the sister she has believed dead for two years.The train is carrying fuel and ammunition toward the retreating German army. It is a legitimate military target—and Anya is ordered to destroy it.But evidence begins to surface that prisoners are being transported among the weapons. A Crimean Tatar partisan searching for her own missing cousin discovers names written on scraps of cloth. A captured nurse risks everything to keep the sick alive. And the closer Anya comes to the truth, the more dangerous the train becomes to everyone trying to save it.With Soviet forces closing in and the Germans preparing to retreat across Crimea, Anya must decide how far she will go to save the sister she abandoned once before—and what obedience is worth when following orders means becoming part of something she knows is wrong.A gripping novel of war, sisterhood, courage, and the terrible choices ordinary people are forced to make when every path carries a cost.