Readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The German Girl, as well as fans of the Queen's Walk series, will not want to miss this amazing debut, set during World War II. The year is 1941, Warsaw is occupied by German troops. Maria Florkovskaya is only fourteen, but she already dreams of becoming a world chess champion. In the meantime, she spends her days training with her father, and in the evenings she becomes a member of the Polish Resistance. One day, on a mission, she makes a fatal mistake, and she and her family are sent to Auschwitz, where political prisoners have only one path - to the execution wall. But the deputy commandant of the camp, Karl Fritsch, learns about her skills as a chess player. He decides to use the girl for his own entertainment - to organize tournaments between her and other prisoners, the price of losing in which is death. Maria fights every day, wanting to survive at all costs, get out of the camp and make the killers of her family pay for what they did.