Ys Goldt

East Prussia, 1908

Father Markus Engel has knelt in the silence, telling himself that solitude is a virtue and that he does not deserve to be known.

Then, on a rain-soaked afternoon, he takes shelter in a wayside shrine and finds Philomena von Richthofen lighting candles for a God she does not believe in.

She asks the one question he cannot answer.

If Not Heaven is an intimate historical romance about two lonely people who learn to be known, and what it costs to finally let someone in.