Keeper of Lost Children
Sadeqa Johnson
<b>In this new novel from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The House of Eve</i>, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.</b><br><br>Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GI’s, Ethel feels compelled to help find these children homes.<br><br> Philadelphia born Ozzie Phillips volunteers for the recently desegregated army in 1948, eager to make his mark in the world. While serving in Manheim, Germany, he meets a local woman, Jelka, and the two embark on a relationship that will impact their lives forever.<br><br> In 1965 Maryland, Sophia Clark is given an opportunity to attend a prestigious all white boarding school and escape her heartless parents. While at the school, she discovers a secret that upends her world and sends her on a quest to unravel her own identity. <br><br> Toggling between the lives of these three individuals, <i>Keeper of Lost Children</i> explores how one woman’s vision will change the course of countless lives, and demonstrates that love in its myriad of forms—familial, parental, and forbidden, even love of self—can be transcendent.

