When Tomek disappears, Maria is determined to find him, but the only person who might be able to help is a young Ukrainian prisoner and the last person Maria trusts-even as she feels a growing connection to him that she can’t resist. He is now a “Silent Unseen,” a special-operations agent with an audacious plan to resist a new and even more dangerous enemy sweeping in from the East. To Maria’s shock, the local Resistance unit is commanded by her older brother, Tomek-who she thought was dead. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. Here’s the book description, from the publisher:Ī mesmerizing historical novel of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother. The Silent Unseen is a companion to her 2020 novel Traitor, set in roughly the same time and place but with a (mostly) different set of characters. Author Interview: Amanda McCrina and The Silent UnseenĪmanda McCrina is the author of the recently published YA novel The Silent Unseen (FSG, 2022), set on the Eastern front of World War II in 1944, as Soviet troops push back the Nazis and turn their sights on both Polish and Ukrainian nationalists who also resisted German occupation.

I'll Tell You No Lies by Amanda McCrina