Penguin Rauhnächte

Cold nights, old secrets, dark dangers: the Spiegel bestseller finally in paperback. "She must never find out. You promised me!" This sentence hits 22-year-old Pia like a punch on Christmas Eve when she overhears a heated argument between her parents. Shortly after, when she discovers that she was adopted at the age of four, her previously known world completely collapses. Throughout her life, she has always felt different, strangely foreign, as if a taboo surrounds her. Now it all seems confirmed.

In search of answers, Pia travels to Wasserburg am Inn, the hometown of her biological mother. The hoarfrost hangs low in the wintry Inn meadows, and eerie figures dance through the medieval town, meant to drive away spirits according to old customs. In the Rauhnächte, it is said, old, well-guarded secrets push their way back to the surface. And the closer Pia gets to the truth about her mother, the tighter the ghosts of the past circle around her. Until Pia finds herself in deadly danger...