North Star

During the Second World War, Sophia Ericksson, a rising young soprano from neutral Sweden, is swept up into a wartime intrigue to match the most intricate plot of any opera in which she'd sung in her career. During an engagement at the Berlin Opera in 1941, she is admired by society cognoscenti and desired by more than one of the Nazi superiors in attendance. Surviving a brutal attack and then suddenly caught in a power play between the highest ranks in the Third Reich, she faces both romantic adventure and heart-stopping tension to return home and save the man she loves from the increasingly desperate Nazi war-machine.

Karin Brising is a theater professional who has performed in opera as well as musical theater. A graduate of New England Conservatory and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, she also studied at Carnegie Tech, and worked with Martha Graham, Sanford Meisner and Louis Horst. She later traveled to Germany to sing, and upon her return became a teacher, a music critic, and arts feature writer for a chain of weekly newspapers in Connecticut. With a fertile grounding in theater, history and music, she has written a series of novels that draw upon those rich elements. She resides in Connecticut.