Keeper of Lost Children | PRE-ORDER

Release Date February 10th, 2026

Virtual Author Event (Pre-Release)
Join Black Women Read Between the Wines, a virtual book club, for a virtual pre-release author chat with Sadeqa Johnson on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM ET.

This conversation celebrates her upcoming novel, Keeper of Lost Children. Pre-orders placed through Oxford Exchange will include a signed bookplate, while supplies last.

Event is hosted virtually by Black Women Read Between the Wines.

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In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.

Lost in the streets and smoldering rubble of Occupied Germany, Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American soldier spots a gaggle of mixed-race children following a nun. Desperate to conceive her own family, she feels compelled to follow them to learn their story.

Ozzie Philips volunteers for the army in 1948, eager to break barriers for Black soldiers. Despite his best efforts, he finds the racism he encountered at home in Philadelphia has followed him overseas. He finds solace in the arms of Jelka, a German woman struggling with the lack of resources and even joy in her destroyed country.

In 1965, Sophia Clark discovers she’s been given an opportunity to integrate a prestigious boarding school in Maryland and leave behind her spiteful parents and the grueling demands. In a chance meeting with a fellow classmate, she discovers a secret that upends her world.

Toggling between the lives of these three individuals, Keeper of Lost Children explores how one woman’s vision will change the course of countless lives, and demonstrates that love in its myriad of forms—familial, parental, and forbidden, even love of self—can be transcendent.

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