This is Book 2 of my Behind Enemy Lines trilogy. Alix has escaped from occupied France and managed to get back to her home in Yugoslavia, only to find her parents, Leo and Sasha, absent. Before she can set out to find them the Germans mount a devastating bombing raid on Belgrade. She discovers that Leo and Sasha have left the country with the young King Peter. Left alone in the rubble of the city she relies on her childhood friend Dragomir. Then she meets Nikola, the man her father intended her to marry. He introduces her to a man known simply as Tito, who seems to be the only person preparing to resist the German occupation. Alix finds herself drawn into the organisation that became know as the Partisans and soon she is fighting alongside them.

Unknown to her, Steve Popovic, the man she fell in love with in Paris, has been sent by the RAF to liaise with General Mihialovic, the leader of the Royalist Chetniks. He is also supposed to be leading a resistance movement but he is more concerned with the rise of the Communist Partisans. Soon a struggle breaks out between the two factions and Alix and Steve find themselves fighting on opposite sides

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