Last Light : Flint Hills Publishing : 9781953583819 : 1953583814 : 12 Mar 2024 : The year is 1943. Victorious in North Africa, the Allies send thousands of German prisoners of war to the United States. Severely injured or ill POWS will be treated in U.S. Army hospitals. On a hot day in August, a young newspaper reporter rides her horse to the Buffalo Ridge Army Hospital just west of Topeka, Kansas. Carrying an aura of mystery, Isabelle Graham speaks German with a Viennese accent. She is soon hired to interpret for an amnesiac prisoner who claims to be a corporal but behaves more like a high officer. Isabelle must discover his identity. Her quest will end in bloody violence with consequences not only for her and the prisoner, but also for many others in the far-away conflagration of war. PRAISE FOR LAST LIGHT: "An intriguing tale that moves seamlessly between the Kansas prairie and the cafés of Vienna and explores where honor ends and betrayal begins, or maybe it's the other way ar