Love is an enduring power, even during wartime. This gripping and heartbreaking wartime story follows the love of two innocent young people as they are forced to endure unimaginable horrors. Fans of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Nightingale will not be able to put this book down.Amsterdam, 1939Dance is the poetry of her soul; dance is her sanctuary.Blue-blooded prima ballerina Eddaline Van der Valk lives for the long days of physical exertion, for the sacrifices made to shine in the spotlights in tutu and tights. But the dance world is slash-and-burn. Edda’s career is cut short after a fierce rivalry with a Russian star dancer, and she takes a break from dancing to attend a finishing school in Switzerland.When her native Holland falls to the Germans, Edda is forced to confront the bitter truth of her parents’ embrace of Hitler’s Fascism. But she finds hope again when she meets Asher Hoffmann, a fellow dancer whose Jewish parents fled Vienna to find safety in Holland. Although they dance together to forget their troubles, their joy is short-lived when the Hoffmanns are betrayed and deported.          Tough and determined, Edda joins the Dutch Resistance movement to save other Jewish families. Framed by members of the Dutch NSB, Edda herself is arrested and transported to Camp Westerbork, waiting to be sent to the concentration camps. All hope seems lost, especially when in the rough handling she loses the precious butterfly brooch Ash gave her. The Crystal Butterfly is the deeply emotional crash-land of a dreamlike, artistic coryphee who ultimately finds her wings when all hope is gone.      This is the 6th book in Hannah Byron’s engaging and evocative Resistance Girl Series .

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