The Last Secret

With the world at war in 1944, Savka Ivanets works as a medic for the Ukrainian resistance against Soviet control. Her husband, Marko, spent years as a resistance leader, but has now taken a position with the Nazi SS where he’s fighting against the Soviets. When Marko shows up after a long absence with a coded message for Savka and their son Taras to take to Underground headquarters, Savka is leery, but she obeys her husband. The mission goes terribly wrong, with Taras taken by the KGB and Savka shot, left for dead. Savka wonders if she will ever see her son again. Fast-forward to Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, in 1972. Landscape artist Jeanie Esterhazy, known as the “Fire Bride” due to the burns she received over much of her body on her wedding day in 1959, struggles to free herself from her questionable caretaker, Pat. Jeanie digs into both her own hazy past and Pat’s, uncovering a connection to Savka and the world of Soviet intrigue.