An aristocratic Prussian family navigates the momentous challenges of the early 20th century through wars, revolutions, and political environments that force them to make difficult moral choices.
The Imperative of Desire is a coming-of-age story that takes a brilliant aristocratic woman from La Belle Époque, through a world war, the revolution that outlawed the German nobility, the roaring twenties, to the demimonde of Weimar Berlin. Read more >
In 1931, Margarethe von Stahle, an aristocratic physician, arrives at Obberoth convent to interview Sister Augustine, a candidate for head nurse, and finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery, a complicated romance, and a domestic drama. Read more >
In 1938, Margarethe von Stahle is desperately trying to practice ethical medicine under the Nazi policy of “racial hygiene” and struggling to hold her family together, despite intrigue, secrecy, and an unforgivable indiscretion. Read more >
