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Growing up in her parents’ crazy hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules’s imaginative sense of humor is the weapon she wields to dodge household chaos. But somewhere between routine discipline with horsewhips, gun-waving gambling debt collectors, and LSD-laced breakfast cereal adventures, tragedy strikes with the death of her younger brother—a blow from which Jules may never fully recover.

     Jules’ story alternates with that of her Grandfather Samuel, a man with a sad story of his own. Samuel, once called Szaja, is an orthodox Jew who lived through the murderous Ukranian pogroms of the 1920s and the Majdanek Death Camp—but whose survival came at a price that’s haunted him for years.

Dylan's next novel in this series is a prequel focused on the character Szaja/Samuel Trautman, created in THE BELIEF IN Angels.


Szaja's Story takes us back to  Szaja's tragic, early experiences as a WWII survivor of the Majdanek Death Camp and the torpedoing of the refugees aboard the Mefkura. When Szaja finally gains his freedom after the war, he begins a fascinating life working in the Parisien post-war couture houses alongside the famed atelier, Lucien Lelong, the man who stood up to Hitler and was responsible for keeping Paris (and not Germany), the fashion capital of the world.