Traitor

Amanda McCrina's Traitor is a tightly woven YA thrill ride exploring political conflict, deep-seated prejudice, and the terror of living in a world where deception is a means of survival.

Poland, 1944. After the Soviet liberation of Lwów from Germany, the city remains a battleground—its loyalties torn between Poland and Ukraine, its people killed by resistance fighters and insurgent armies.

Tolya Korolenko is half-Ukrainian, half-Polish, and joined up with the Soviet Red Army just to keep himself alive and fed. When he not-quite-accidentally shoots his political officer in the street, he's rescued by a squad of insurgent Ukrainians.

They might have saved him, but Tolya doesn't trust them. He especially doesn't trust Solovey, the squad's young war-scarred leader. He doesn't know that Solovey failed once before to save his own flesh and blood, and knows the cost of looking out for life over loyalty.

Then a betrayal sends them...