The Winds of September and its sequel, September Again, is the suspenseful saga of Michael Ritter, a World War II intelligence officer and the son of a U.S. diplomat. At the age of twenty-one, just before he is to go to war, Michael falls in love with a seventeen-year-old Paraguayan beauty, Yolanda Mendoza. They pledge their love and plan to wed after the war. What follows is a odyssey–an adventure and struggle for survival in which Michael is thrust into the last days of Hitler’s Third Reich. As a courier delivering classified papers to General Eisenhower in Europe, his mission takes a frightening turn when his plane crashes into the icy North Atlantic and he is taken prisoner by the Germans. Michael faces seemingly insurmountable obstacles and assumes a succession of identities in a desperate struggle to stay alive–he is a captain in the U.S. Army, a lieutenant in the submarine service of the Third Reich, a Russian fur trapper and farmer, and a major in the East German Army. A love affair with the provocative Erika, a Siberian school teacher, leads him to question the depth of his love for Yolanda and, ultimately, his own destiny. The Winds of September is the fascinating account of one man’s struggle for survival and love, set against an intriguing historical backdrop, which is sure to keep readers impatiently turning pages to learn the fate of Michael Ritter, his world, and his loves.

The Winds of September and its sequel, September Again, is the suspenseful saga of Michael Ritter, a World War II intelligence officer and the son of a U.S. diplomat. At the age of twenty-one, just before he is to go to war, Michael falls in love with a seventeen-year-old Paraguayan beauty, Yolanda Mendoza. They pledge their love and plan to wed after the war. What follows is a odyssey–an adventure and struggle for survival in which Michael is thrust into the last days of Hitler’s Third Reich. As a courier delivering classified papers to General Eisenhower in Europe, his mission takes a frightening turn when his plane crashes into the icy North Atlantic and he is taken prisoner by the Germans. Michael faces seemingly insurmountable obstacles and assumes a succession of identities in a desperate struggle to stay alive–he is a captain in the U.S. Army, a lieutenant in the submarine service of the Third Reich, a Russian fur trapper and farmer, and a major in the East German Army. A love affair with the provocative Erika, a Siberian school teacher, leads him to question the depth of his love for Yolanda and, ultimately, his own destiny. The Winds of September is the fascinating account of one man’s struggle for survival and love, set against an intriguing historical backdrop, which is sure to keep readers impatiently turning pages to learn the fate of Michael Ritter, his world, and his loves.