When Lillian Loewe’s GermanJewish immigrant parents send her from Baltimore to preWorld War Berlin to be “finished” before returning to an arranged marriage, no one can anticipate the romance, danger and drama that await her. At sixteen, Lillian is attractive, flirtatious, headstrong, and spoiled, qualities that propel her into the fascinating Berlin of Kaiser Wilhelm II. But as life on the glittering surface gives way to forbidden love, encounters with antiSemitism, political forces beyond her control, and a shocking and violent climax, Lillian is forced to adapt. If she is ever to return to her native Baltimore, neither she, nor the world she lives in, will be the same. Inspired by diaries kept by the author’s grandmother, Lillian Loewe is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of a young American abroad on the eve of World War I.