Rose Under Fire is the sequel to Elizabeth Wein's devastating WWII novel Code Name Verity. While Code Name Verity told of a young woman's experience in the years leading up to the war and is opening, Rose Under Fire comes just at the end of the war and explores its aftermath. Rose Justice is a poet and a pilot, and thanks to a highly ranked uncle she transfers to England to work as a civil ATA pilot. A streak of incredibly bad luck and cruel circumstance lands Rose in Germany, where she is shuffled into the Ravensbruck Concentration camp for its last months of operation. What she finds there is not to be believed. One of my favorite books of the year.