Only Breath & Shadow is a gripping historical novel set against the darkening backdrop of 1930s Vienna. The story follows Christian Drewe, an English gentleman who was blinded and scarred during the Battle of the Somme and now navigates the world entirely through sound, smell, and touch.

Christian’s quiet existence is shattered by the escalating Nazi persecution of his Jewish friends, the Friedmann family. When the Friedmanns are arrested and sent to concentration camps, Christian finds himself the unlikely protector of their four young children. Aided by Claire Astor, a spirited American nightclub singer, and his fiercely loyal housekeeper, Frau Agnes Huber, Christian must move out of the shadows in order to bring the children to safety.