Books by Antoinette Dietkus
Ghosts of Winter: A young woman encounters the Third Reich
Anger smolders in Germany over the country’s humiliation following the Great War. A brash Führer has seized on the discontent, and militarized all citizens to regain world power. Germany is no longer a democracy – it is the Third Reich.
Despite her father’s misgivings over her safety, Elizabeth Schoene leaves the Bavarian Alps for Munich, hoping to attend university. She stays with her wealthy aunt, who is married to a powerful Gestapo SS officer.
In this hazardous time, showing human decency or thinking for oneself is deadly, as Elizabeth sees literally while working as a typist at Gestapo Police Headquarters. Her aunt explains that Elizabeth, who is a young ice-blonde Aryan, the Third Reich’s idealized citizen, can take a luxurious seat on the “train rushing through Germany” or “stand on the tracks.”
Elizabeth gets caught up in a university campus raid on student dissidents willing to “stand on the tracks.” She moves along a jagged path of bittersweet choices between the indoctrinated and the hunted, but fear and treachery complicate knowing anyone’s true motives.
A crucial crossroads forces her into drastic action.
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Riding Shotgun in an 18-Wheeler
Nick Lane & Toni Dietkus try to survive in a fantasy, “a cabin on a mountain in Montana.” Finally broke and there not being local jobs, they jump into trucking-long hauling across the USA. From the passenger seat Toni writes of events and sketches scenes from the road in letters to a friend (who saves them all). These on the- spot letters become Riding Shotgun In An 18-Wheeler. Toni Dietkus raised her family in affluent Seattle, WA but always desired the simple life. Not publishing as a writer of fiction, she turned to writing and illustrating what she did know: daily life as a mountain woman/trucker.
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Don't Tell the Wind
In Assisi, Italy, a young nun hides an unforgiveable act.
In America, Victoria Lange is raised by a single mom who keeps the past secret from her daughter. On her own after her mother’s death, Victoria studies obsessively to become an architect.
At graduation, Victoria is out of money and ready to accept a good position, when her roommate, a rich native Italian, convinces her to spend the summer at her luxurious home in Italy. “See my Roma, maybe discover your mother’s origins?”
Victoria’s summer turns into a fast track of revelations. Being naïve, she falls into a trap. A future she could barely imagine opens-if only she can right her fateful mistake.
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About the Author
Antoinette "Toni" Dietkus
Antoinette is also known as “Toni” Dietkus, author of Riding Shotgun in an 18-Wheeler, an illustrated journal, available from Strategic Book Publishing and www.etsy.com/shop/toniZart. Ghosts of Winter, historical suspense by Antoinette Dietkus, will be available in 2023 from Pegasus Publishing UK.
