This is the story of an English Jewess who married a German Jewish architect only to be thrown into Holzminden Internment camp during the Great War. After the war, they settled down to married life, but their happiness was cut short with the rise of Fascism.

Miriam watched in horror as her family disintegrated during Kristallnacht, or 'The Night of Broken Glass'. It turned her. It warped her and it blackened her heart. Although not part of the Blaise Hall Series, it explores what terrible acts made her the way she was.