They survived the war-what came after nearly broke them.
May 1945. Europe is celebrating peace. For Zora Nikolic and her family, there is no home to return to. Driven from Yugoslavia, they join thousands of Serbian émigrés and Yugoslav Royalist resistance fighters fleeing a homeland transformed by war and political upheaval. Exhausted and starving, they cross mountains and borders on foot, carrying what little they have left and clinging to one desperate hope: freedom.
But crossing into Italy does not bring salvation. Instead, Zora and her family are swept into the uncertain world of surrender, exile, and displaced persons camps where hunger, political suspicion, and the crushing weight of all they have lost threaten even the strongest among them. As Europe rebuilds around them, they remain suspended between countries, between identities, and between the lives they once knew and futures they cannot yet imagine.
Through it all, Zora refuses to abandon the one hope others insist she must relinquish-that her son Goran, believed lost to the war, may still be alive.
Epic in scope and intimate in its humanity, A Place Between Borders is a searing historical novel of exile, family, and the fierce will to begin again when home no longer exists. Inspired by survivor testimonies, rare archival records, and the untold experiences of displaced Serbian families after World War II, Mila Evanovich restores voice and dignity to a forgotten generation of Serbian émigrés whose stories have too long remained untold.
A Place Between Borders continues the sweeping journey begun in No Bread Tomorrow and is the second novel in Evanovich's Nikolic Sisters Trilogy.