Publisher's Synopsis
Sonja, innocent and beautiful, is pregnant at seventeen. She has been deliberately seduced by a high ranking powerful office in the Secret Police. She is deeply in love with him, and wants to have their child.
An unexpected coup brings death to him and fear to her that the repressive regime will terminate her pregnancy immediately they know of it. Their law of allowing no unwed mother to have a child always strictly enforced. Jovan, the younger brother of the dead officer, is ordered by his fatter to steal the baby from Sonja as soon as it is born. Jovan and his wife, a prestigious Doctor, are having marital trouble. They are still in love with each other, but pride prevents them from taking the first move to reconciliation. Starved for affection, the Doctor has been drawn into a sadistic affair by a corrupt Captain in the Police. She is unaware that the Captain has had her husband arrested. Abuse and humiliation follow as the affair progresses; she wishes desperately to end their relationship -- but he is too powerful. Is death the only way to escape this web of lies and deception....
