The new novel from Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult, who combines topical moral issues and emotional human drama with the page-turning compulsion of a thriller.

Sage is a young woman whose new friend, retired teacher and pillar of the community Josef Weber, tells her he was an SS guard at Auschwitz - and he wants her to kill him. Sage's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. What do you do when evil lives next door?

Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world. Sleeping by day and working in a bakery by night, she kneads her emotion into the beautiful bread she bakes.

But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Josef Weber, a quiet man old enough to be her grandfather, and respected pillar of the community, she feels that finally, she may have found someone she can open up to.
Until Josef tells her the evil secret he's kept for sixty years.

Caught between Josef's search for redemption and her shattered illusions, Sage turns to her family history and her own life for answers. As she uncovers the truth from the darkest horrors of war, she must follow a twisting trail between betrayal and forgiveness, love and revenge. And ask herself the most difficult question she has ever faced - can murder ever be justice? Or mercy?

Picoult explores issues of justice, retribution and forgiveness in this mesmerising and heartbreaking new novel.