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*** distributed by IngramSpark *** A plan to flood out her valley. A means to destroy her culture. 1920. Former Austrian Tyrol. When Katharina Thaler, a young Tyrolean farmer, finds a wounded Italian engineer in the mountains of the Reschen Valley, her decision to save his life thrusts both of them into a labyrinth of corruption, prejudice and greed. Angelo Grimani, a civil engineer, knows the details of a project that will destroy Katharina's valley. Not in favour of it himself, he returns home to fend off the forces that envision the biggest reservoir in Italy, headed by Angelo's own father. As the Tyroleans gear themselves to fight for their land, the Fascist party gathers power and momentum. Katharina and Angelo must each decide what to protect: love or country? Dive in and discover the gripping saga based on a history you never knew. This box set contains the first three of six books: No Man's Land: Part 1, The Breach: Part 2, and the dark prequel to the story, The Smuggler of Reschen Pass, plus bonus material. Save now on the regular individual retail price! Winner of the Coffee Pot Book Club Book Award 2019 (Best Box Set); Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Discovering Diamonds Book of the Month Finalist 2019 and a Flash Fiction 500 Novel Award winner 2018.

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Wonderfully addictive. Lucyk-Berger is a born storyteller. - Mary Anne Yarde, Coffee Pot Book Club blogger A gripping set of historical novels packed with political intrigue and memorable characters. A FINALIST and highly recommended. The Wishing Shelf Book Awards A little love, a little politics, a huge number of dilemmas, this is a compelling story. The author is an excellent storyteller with a gently flowing writing style that never detracts from the story she's telling. - Goodreads Reviewer

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IPPY Book Award 2020 silver medal winner for SOUVENIRS FROM KIEV: Ukraine and Ukrainians in WWII. Long-listed in the Flash500 Novel Competition 2017 for No Man's Land/The Breach Winner of the Flash500 Short Story Competition with an extract from Bolzano. Winner of the Coffee Pot Book Club Book Award Box and Box Set of the Year 2019 for the Reschen Valley Box Set. A Discovered Diamond, shortlisted for Book of the Month July 2019, Reschen Valley Box Set Reader's Favorite 5-star reviews for Bolzano, The Smuggler of Reschen Pass, and Magda's Mark (featured in The Road to Liberation Collection). HNS International Short Story 2nd Place Winner 2014 for Souvenirs from Kiev (short story in the Souvenirs from Kiev collection) Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger was born in Minnesota in 1969 and grew up in the culture-rich neighborhood of Nordeast Minneapolis. She started her writing career with short stories, travel narratives, worked as a journalist and then as a managing editor for a magazine publisher before jumping the editor's desk and pursuing her dreams of writing and traveling. In 2000, she moved to western Austria and established her own communications training company. She has won several awards for her short stories and novels and now primarily writes historical fiction. During a trip into northern Italy over the Reschen Pass, she stood on the edge of Reschen Lake and desperately wanted to understand how a 15th-century church tower ended up sticking out of the water. What stories were lying beneath? Some eight years later, she launched the Reschen Valley series with five books and a novella releasing between 2018 and 2021, in parallel to her WW2 novels and short story collections. For more on Chrystyna, dive in at inktreks.com.

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