Elyse Hoffman

Elyse Hoffman builds period fiction that revisits the Second World War through suspense, moral conflict, and elements drawn from Jewish history and folklore. The Vengeance of Samuel Val continues her Project 613 sequence. Its central character survives the destruction of his village and joins an wartime resistance group, carrying a desire for revenge into a mission that also requires him to protect another refugee. The novel places a personal reckoning beside the wider danger of occupied Europe. Released in 2023, the volume continues Hoffman's established interest in stories that approach familiar history from unusual angles. Her author biography describes a long engagement with Second World War study and identifies other works including The Book of Uriel and the Barracks of the Holocaust series. For readers, Hoffman's fiction is defined less by battlefield scale than by the ethical choices faced by people caught within persecution, resistance, loyalty, and loss. This book offers a compact example of that historically focused approach.