The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse

Elegant and haunting; Lyrical and sad - Cold yet Hopeful! Thoughts and feelings I went through as I read Kate Mosse's The Winter Ghosts.  Freddie lost his older and much esteemed to brother to the Great War.  It has been a decade and Freddie is still unable, almost refuses, to let go.  As you journey with Freddie to a small, gray village, you listen as he opens his bruised heart to Fabrissa over the course of one shadowy night.  Fabrissa in turn shares her family's despair of persecution and their fight for to save their village and way of life.  Mosse's use of imagery put me in the Pyrenees with Freddie and on the plateau with him and Fabrissa; I ventured through the caves and ran through the tunnel with them.  A simple story raised to higher levels which make you believe!