Two friends. Two lifetimes. One unfinished promise.
On the first night of Hanukkah, a brick crashes through the window of Adara Cohen's home, breaking a sacred, defiant night of celebration. Inside, three of her children are badly injured. Outside, a small Midwestern community is forced to confront the repercussions of an act of hatred that echoes a bloodstained past.
For Adara's closest friend, Lily Sullivan, the attack awakens more than anger.
A devoted Catholic, Lily begins to experience vivid dreams that feel like impossible memories: fragments of Nazi-occupied Poland, a Jewish boy moving through danger, and a Catholic priest making a promise that will be felt far into the future.
As Lily throws herself into stamping out hatred in her hometown, she becomes increasingly convinced her life-or her soul-is bound to Adara's.
But some histories do not stay buried. They repeat. They reshape the future. Because some souls are destined to break the patterns of the past-if not in one lifetime, then in the next...
A sweeping, emotional novel set across dual timelines in modern-day Michigan and the Holocaust in 1940's Poland, Two Lifetimes is testament to the enduring power of human connection, a celebration of interfaith friendship, and a poignant reminder to learn from history's mistakes.