In The Botanist’s Tracks, bestselling historical fiction author Michael Reit delivers a breathless, deeply researched novel based on actual events. It stands as the first-ever book set primarily in Rajsko, a Nazi agricultural sub-camp located just a ten-minute ride from the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The story follows Felcia Hodaks, a prisoner whose vital botanical skills make her indispensable to the Reich. Inside Rajsko, she is forced to tend to plants for one of Nazi Germany’s most ambitious agricultural experiments—a project that could tip the scales of the war. Meanwhile, outside the gates, Sabina Kupka uncovers the horrifying truth about her own father’s complicity at a Nazi-run coal mine. Driven by a desperate need for justice, Sabina aligns herself with an increasingly defiant underground resistance.
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