A newly certified Boston doctor distraught over a nightclub fire at the Cocoanut Grove; a British ship captain and his strong-willed daughter, Kate; a Japanese Ambassador and Jewish engineer in Lithuania are all connected by one voyage of a legendary ship, the Queen Mary.
After a devastating nightclub fire, with World War II threatening, Dr. Ben Stuart questions everything he has worked toward. One ship, the Queen Mary, will change his life forever.
The Queen Mary is dramatically transformed from a cruise liner to a troop transport ship and James Hawthorne is assigned as her captain. His strong-willed daughter, Kate, a young nurse, stubbornly talks her way aboard, passionate about contributing to the war effort.
Ponar Forest in Vilna, Lithuania was the site of one of the most heinous war crimes of the Nazis. Forced to help them, Jonah and Ana Dressler attempt a harrowing escape from “the pit”. But that is only the beginning of their long and dangerous journey.
Chiune Sugihara, undercover as the Japanese Ambassador to Kaunas, Lithuania, gathers intel on German and Russian operations for Japanese leaders. As Germany invades he develops a deep desire to help the Jews he has come to respect. As he faces being forced out of Lithuania, he saves thousands of Jewish men, women and children.
With German U-boats hunting the Cunard ship, a catastrophic collision, a fierce storm and a Nazi bounty of $250,000, this marvelous British ship, the Queen Mary, zig-zags a path through these lives and they will all face perilous passages they would not have chosen.
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