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With her brothers drawn into the fighting of World War II, Katherine Lorberg, a talented but lonely young woman, manages the extensive agricultural operations of her powerful father, a U.S. senator from Missouri. When POW labor–German soldiers captured in fighting overseas–is made available to offset the shortage of farm hands, Katherine believes her biggest problem is solved. The men are certainly a help, but Katherine grows resentful, for the Germans are a constant reminder of the threat still facing her brothers and her country.

Things change when POW Stefan Biermann arrives at the Lorberg farm and is given the important task of establishing a vineyard. He and Katherine are forced to cooperate to ensure its success, and in him, she begins to see a different side of the Germans. This work brings them closer together, and despite their initial resistance, soon they discover an undeniable longing that can no longer be ignored.

This relationship, fraught with risk from the start, becomes even more perilous when one of the guards, Robert Whitcomb, becomes suspicious. He’s an explosive and jealous man who also desires Katherine. These troubles are compounded when Karl Leider, a hard-core Nazi, arrives at the camp and partners with Whitcomb to run a black market operation stealing tobacco and fuel. When Stefan stumbles onto their scheme, Leider and Whitcomb create a trap to eliminate their mutual problem. With this plan in motion, Stefan and Katherine find themselves in a desperate, high-stakes struggle, in which saving their lives means losing their love.

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My Enemy, My Love is based on the forgotten story of German POWs interned in the American Midwest, and is a fictional counterpart to the award-winning The Enemy Among Us: POWS in Missouri During WWII, which captured this unique chapter of U.S. history.