Motor City at War: The Detroit Series #1

Detroit, 1942. How does a woman fight a war? By following her heart into a defense plant—if she can get in…

 After her fiancé runs away to join the army, Bess Horowitz can’t stay on the sidelines anymore. How does a Jewish Socialist from Detroit fight a war? She takes her heartbreak—and her social conscience—into a defense plant, where she finds another battle—against hatred on the factory floor…

 Recently divorced, Azulee Smith desperately needs a job. She’d rather sing, but it’s not a living. She ends up on the swing shift, washing dishes, and longing to get into a defense plant…if she can get past the prejudice that closes the door to a Black woman…

 Viola Allen and her husband fled the South for a better life in Detroit. Her husband enlists to fight for democracy, but the army sends him back South to segregation and Jim Crow. She decides to fight, too—but she finds that in Detroit, discrimination is alive and well in every defense plant…

 All three women have a battle on their hands. In wartime Detroit, is it one they can win?