Stay Where You Are

About the Book

Esther Rosenthal-Yokerman is a lady-scientist who have been living a very strange life under a constant fear. She has a premonition of doom and decides to entrust her roommate and best friend Geane Rallis, also a scientist, with her stormy life story, along with the secret code diary of her fathers, Yosse Rosenthal, editor of a newspaper in Austria prior to WWII, and, through a series of circumstances, Adolf Hitler’s private art teacher at that time. Esther is married to Otto Yokerman, a pacifist and confirmed opponent of the arms arsenal. There are also suspicions that Otto is Adolf Hitler’s unacknowledged son! Esther fears she is the target of three different organizations that hope she might lead them to Otto so they can destroy him (and her) for heir own reasons. First, the Neo-Nazis. How could she, a Jew, dare fall in love with and marry their exalted leader’s son! Second, an organization of militant Jews: How could she, a Jew, dare to marry the son of the man whose maniacal aim was the annihilation of their people? And third, the weapons industrialists, for whom War is always a means of making a fortune. For their mutual survival, Esther and Otto must live apart...

About the Author

Marisa, born and educated in Athens, Greece, with further studies in Paris, France, and New York. Wrote poems and stories for various Athenian magazines, on such themes as murder mystery, police events, social drama, and romance. Her stage play, “Let Us Be On Guard” won her a membership in the prestigious Club of Theatrical Writers in Athens. Began a member of the writer’s Society following the commercial success of four films for which she wrote the screenplays— “You Must Stay Alive, My Darling!,” “Storm In A Child Spirit” “My Great Love” “Heroes” Published a Greek-language collection of poems, “Uncertain Shadows”. In New York, produced and appeared on her own daily radio show for Greek-American audiences (WHBI-FM and WPOW-AM). Was proprietor of a three language bookshop, (Greek-Spanish-English) “Stay Where You Are” is the first of her works which has been translated into English from the original Greek. Hobby: tennis - Painter of oil portraits