An emotional novel about three sisters whose youth falls in occupied Austria in 1938, by a USA Today bestselling author. In Austria of the 1930s, three daughters grow up in the family of an elderly watchmaker and his wife, whom their father tenderly calls the “Edelweiss sisters.” Johanna is practical and hardworking; Birgit is quiet and perceptive—she helps her father in the workshop and believes repairing watches is her real calling; and Lotte is bright and charming. Their calm happiness collapses when darkness thickens over the country: the sisters will have to wager everything to protect their beloved homeland. And yet even amid horror, there are tiny shoots—love and hope.