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1941, Lodz. When nineteen-year-old Jewish ballerina Eleonore Kantor arrives at the Lodz ghetto, she quickly learns how easy it is to break a person’s spirit. After the Nazis murder her mother before her eyes, she is left with nothing but a pair of ballet slippers. Painstakingly hand-stitched by her mother, they were a gift to remind Eleonore to continue pursuing her dream of becoming a ballerina, no matter what. Determined to find light even in the darkest of places, Eleonore joins the ghetto resistance to open a secret ballet studio for the children.

When an ancient spiral curse begins to unravel the city from the inside out, Anna Hartwell becomes its reluctant key to survival. Marked by a mysterious symbol and haunted by secrets buried beneath the streets, Anna must navigate a collapsing world where trust is fragile, alliances fracture, and every step could be her last. As shadowy enemies close in and the cost of survival grows higher, Anna must unite the broken, confront the past, and fight for the soul of the city—and for the people she refuses to lose.