As someone who absolutely adores the recent rise of wonderful authors like Rebecca Rasmussen (The Bird Sister’s), Beth Hoffman (Saving CeeCee Honeycutt), Sarah Jio (The Violets of March), Caroline Leavitt (Pictures of You), Camille Noe Pagan (The Art of Forgetting) and many more in online forums like Twitter, on blogs and on Goodreads I was so excited to have another to be on the look out for. Sarah McCoy has been wonderful to connect with on Twitter and is also the author of one already published book, The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico, and another soon to be published book, The Baker’s Daughter. Now, as someone who isn’t normally drawn to historical related fiction I’d have to say I’m actually surprisingly excited to read Sarah’s upcoming book. I’m completely enthralled with the synopsis and can hardly wait until January of 2012! Take a look at the synopsis for The Baker’s Daughter, and you tell me…will you be picking up either of Sarah’s wonderful books?

In the tradition of Sarah’s Key and Those Who Save Us, Sarah McCoy returns with a timely novel about the politics of exclusion, the terrible choices we face in wartime, and the redemptive power of love.

If you look out Reba Adams’s back door, you can see all the way to Mexico. Ciudad de Juarez is just over the Rio Grande river, and Reba’s boyfriend, Riki, an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, makes sure that everyone stays on their respective sides. Reba is a journalist for the El Paso monthly, and while Riki finds comfort in strict rules and regulations, Reba knows that in every good story, some lines will be blurred.

Reba’s latest assignment is a feel-good Christmas piece about an elderly baker across town. The interview should take a few hours at most, but Elsie, owner of Elsie’s German Bakery, is no easy subject. She keeps turning the tables on Reba–if Reba and Riki are engaged, why doesn’t she wear his ring?–and Reba finds herself returning to the bakery again and again. For Elsie, Reba’s questions have brought back memories of a darker time: her life in Germany during the last desperate year of WWII. And as Elsie, Reba, and Riki’s lives become more intertwined, all three are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths of their pasts and seek out the courage to forgive.

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