A New York Tribune reporter, Mary is covering a dangerous WWII bombing raid over Germany when her plane crashes. Her colleague Lee rushes to her rescue, but their daring escape is interrupted when a priest asks them to care for a Jewish infant taken from a Lebensborn hospital---a breeding facility for Aryan babies. Can they smuggle the child to freedom across enemy lines? 350 pages, softcover from Moody.

In Tricia Goyer’s latest novel, Arms of Deliverance: A Story of Promise, three women travel toward their destiny as they struggle to survive in war-torn Europe. Fears and insecurities trap all three women until they place their lives in God’s hands. Goyer does an excellent job braiding three separate stories to form a cohesive whole. Her main characters, Mary, Lee, and Katrine, are strong women with human flaws. These flaws add a realistic flavor to the story.

In 1944, Americans Mary Kelly and Lee O’Donnelly are rival newspaper reporters. As they struggle to find a niche in an occupation where men rule, both are sent overseas to bring a female point of view to the war. Eventually, Lee’s providence sends her sailing toward Normandy and Utah Beach. On assignment aboard Destiny’s Child, a B-17, Mary and the crew are forced to bail out over Belgium. Within German-occupied territory, some of the crew are able to escape while others are captured or killed.

Meanwhile, Katrine, a Czech Jew, is in hiding. Because of her blonde hair and blue eyes, she is able to masquerade as an Aryan. She falls in love with a married German officer, Hendrick Schwartz, and compromises her Jewish beliefs. Unaware Katrine is a Jew, he sends her to Lebensborn, the prestigious home for expectant German mothers, when she becomes pregnant.

Arms of Deliverance is a well-wrought story that balances the stark bloody mess of war with hope, the extermination of a race with new life, and the winds of hatred with the gentle breath of promise from our Heavenly Father. As Mary said, “Could it be possible that I don’t have to figure out this world and my place in it on my own? Could it be that I only need to focus on You?”

Readers should keep in mind that there are a few graphic scenes depicting war and the issue of the unwed mother, which may bother some. I would recommend this book for mature readers. – Victoria Borgman, Christian Book Previews.com

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