With Each New Dawn by Gail Kittleson

With Each New Dawn

            Sometimes a girl needs a little pick-me-up, so my publisher created this new cover for With Each New Dawn, and we’ve spruced up the contents, as well. Due to a couple of bone breaks, I’m tardy with this announcement, but am picking up where I left off.

So let me tell you about Kate Isaacs . . . one of my favorite World War II characters.

The Great War left Kate an orphan, and World War II renders her an expectant but resilient RAF widow. In spring 1943 as she works in a London government office, a mysterious Frenchman, Monsieur le Blanc, claims he knew her mother in the Great War and ignite Kate’s buried hunger for her father.

Monsieur claims Kate has her mother’s courage. But Kate shelves her haunting questions in preparation for motherhood and her best friend Addie’s arrival from the States to help with the baby. The Allied Invasion of France, for which Addie’s volatile husband Harold trains with his unit on the British coast, overshadows everything andalso affects the French Résistance.

Domingo, a Basque shepherd, guides downed Allied pilots over the Spanish border, but longs to settle on his ancestral homestead with his beloved Sancha. Against his wishes, she volunteers to aid Jewish refugees. Then Domingo learns that the Gestapo has rounded her up with some children.

He and his partner Philippe return Sancha’s body to her parents. Domingo recommits himself to thwart the Nazis, always aware of his aged mother and younger brother Gabirel caring for the family’s sheep.

In July Addie replaces Kate in Charles Tenney’s government office. She immediately impresses Charles, a wounded RAF veteran. His mother and Addie see Kate through a life-threatening miscarriage, but restlessness motivates Kate to accept a position at Allied headquarters. She again encounters Monsieur le Blanc, who suggests that like her spy father, she is born to aid French Jews betrayed by the Vichy government.

Kate joins the Secret Operations Executive. In the Auvergne, Domingo meets her parachute drop, nurses her hurt ankle, and carries her to safety. She settles in Le-Chambon-sur-Lignon, a refuge for displaced children, and acts as a courier.

Hours away, Domingo still grieves his dear Sancha. Sometimes, the uncomplaining American agent he met rises in his memory as he carries out increased Resistance missions to thwart the Nazis.

The rest of the story? All of these threads intersect meaningfully in With Each New Dawn.

While instructing college writing classes, penning a memoir paved the way for Gail Kittleson to write historical fiction. Her make-do characters, usually World War II era, rise above adversities to make a difference. She loves to encourage other writers through her workshops. She and her retired Army Chaplain husband enjoy grandchildren, research, and creating a Northern Iowa cottage garden.

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