Golden Flight - Book Two of the Bright One Series
In 1933, as antisemitism spreads
across Europe, fifteen-year-old Berta leaves Czernowitz on a journey that will
change her life forever.
Married to a man three times her age, Berta is forced to
surrender childhood overnight, stepping into the role of wife before she has
fully learned who she is. Marriage was meant to secure her future. Instead, it
carries her across borders just as hostility toward Jews intensifies and the
ground beneath her people begins to shift.
What was meant to be a quick and safe departure becomes a
desperate migration as anti-Jewish persecution grows and escape routes narrow.
By 1935, Berta and her husband Solomon are stranded in Istanbul, suspended
between continents and consequences. Months pass in suffocating uncertainty.
Promised departures collapse without explanation. Funds diminish. Friendships
disappear into another ship's wake.
And within the confines of marriage, Berta begins to
understand that protection does not always resemble love, and that survival may
demand more maturity than she was ever meant to possess. When passage to
Palestine is finally secured, relief does not come easily. She has learned how
quickly certainty dissolves. Ahead lies open water and the fragile hope of
safety.
Behind her, a Europe turning its back on Jews and closing
its doors. Between those two realities stands a young woman who must decide
which parts of herself she is willing to sacrifice to endure.
Set against the tightening grip of pre-war Europe, this
sweeping and intimate second installment of the Bright One series traces
Berta's forced coming of age amid exile, identity loss, and the quiet, often invisible
costs of survival.
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Lisajoy Sachs is an award-winning author of historical fiction whose
work explores memory, identity, and the enduring strength
of the human spirit. Her best-selling debut novel, Bright One, launched a
six-part World War II saga inspired by true stories from her own family
ancestry. The novel established her as a powerful voice in multigenerational
storytelling grounded in rigorous historical research and emotional authenticity.
The third
installment of the series, Aliyah, is currently in development and is scheduled
for publication in 2027. The remaining titles in the completed saga include Folding
Light, Restoring Hope, and Fading Night. Sachs has completed manuscripts for
the entire six-book series, an ambitious literary undertaking that traces the
lives, displacement, survival, and rebuilding of
her ancestors across pre-war and wartime Europe.
Born and raised
between Long Island and the Catskill Mountains of New York, Sachs was shaped by
landscapes of sea and mountain that continue to influence the atmosphere and
expansiveness of her fiction. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the City
University of New York and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alfred University. Her
professional background reflects a lifelong dedication to craft and design,
with experience spanning fine arts, interior design, metal smithing, lapidary arts, and the craft beer and hospitality industries. She is an Accredited
Jewelry Professional through the Gemological Institute of America, a Certified
Beer Server® through the
Cicerone® Certification Program, and a graduate of the Hop & Brew School at
Yakima Chief Hops.
With the eye of a
visual artist and the discipline of a historian, Sachs writes with cinematic
scope and layered emotional depth. Her work is driven by a profound commitment
to preserving family history and honoring those
whose stories might otherwise be lost to time. Through richly detailed
narrative and immersive storytelling, she illuminates the fragile threads that
connect past and present.
Now residing in the
Catskill Mountains of New York, Sachs continues to write and research while embracing an active life filled with cycling, skiing, and travel with
her partner and their standard poodle, Hops.
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