In the Blink of an Eye

Until that peace-shattering night, Rachael's life had been perfect. Nothing in the child's world could have prepared her for the pounding on the door, or the nightmarish events that would follow…The year is 1938; the place, Nazi-occupied Vienna. Seven year-old Rachael and her family are enjoying a traditional Sabbath dinner, when they hear a pounding on the front door and a man's angry voice demanding to see her father. A terrified Rachael and her younger brother are told to hide in a kitchen cupboard. When they come out, their father is gone. Fearing for their lives and forced to part with nearly all their possessions, Rachael, her mother and brother leave home the next day to begin a desperate search for safety. Relying upon only their fair Aryan looks for protection, they take to the perilous, Nazi-filled streets, posing as Germans. To cope with her suddenly hostile and threatening reality, Rachael decides to perfect her masquerade and turn it into a game of wits. It will be a dangerous and heartbreaking game, but a game she is determined to win... Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Lynn Solte is a writer now living in Hollywood, Florida. Her working life began in the advertising industry, where she discovered a love for and absorbed the elements of good writing and graphic design; she went on to study journalism at FIT/SUNY and graduate from the Institute of Children's Literature. Realizing along the way she did not feel fulfilled in a corporate setting and that helping to improve the everyday lives of those in need was her greatest motivation, she moved into the not-for-profit sector, where she spent the majority of her career writing/designing fund raising brochures/promotional material and newsletters for major non-profits, such as the University of Miami School of Medicine Department of Orthopedics, Easter Seals, ArtCenter South Florida, and the Concert Association of Florida. From 2011 until 2023, she ran Rising Star Résumés, her own résumé writing business. Now in her eighth decade and semi-retired, she still loves to write. In the Blink of an Eye being her first, Lydia's Story is her second Young Adult historical novel.