Dark is the Night is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability.
Dark is the Night by Rachel Evans
Genre: Historical Fiction
Tour Dates: 18th - 24th January 2026
Publication Date: 28th November 2025
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Estimated Page Count: 440
Standalone First Book in a trilogy
Formats available: Epub and very limited UK Paperbacks
Types of post available: Reviews (preferred) and basic promo / spotlight posts
Author Content Warnings: Before the novel starts, Elske was beaten by her husband and when he hit her daughter, she killed him by drilling holes in his boat. Also, the Holocaust is a theme but this novel just depicts the round ups by Casper witnessing them and it shows a Jewish family` in hiding.
In Nazi-occupied Holland, a mother and son fight to survive.
When his sister Lotte dies of blood poisoning, Casper Van Doujke leaves his island home of Terschelling for Amsterdam. Blaming himself for Lotte’s death, he studies to become a doctor.
Meanwhile, his mother Elske Van Doujke’s quiet mourning for her daughter is interrupted when the Nazis occupy Terschelling. When a face from the past returns to the island, Elske has a final chance of happiness. But can she take it?
Mother and son join the Dutch resistance, risking everything for their people as they live through occupation and famine.
In her remote cottage, Elske shelters young Dutch men trying to escape to England and Allied airmen attempting to avoid capture. In Amsterdam, Casper works as a doctor for the resistance and falls in love with the fiancée of his cell’s leader.
But when the war threatens those closest to them, Elske and Casper are forced to make impossible choices just to survive.
About Rachel Evans
Since I was a little girl, I’ve always written stories (which I kept in a shoe box beneath my bed). Having cerebral palsy, I found an escape in writing and I still do. After doing a BA (Hons) in English and French and an MA in Modern Languages Research, I trained to be a newspaper journalist. I now work as a teaching assistant in a primary school where I share my love of writing with the children I teach. In my free time, I spend every moment I can writing. Escaping to the past, especially World War II, helps me cope with the stresses of life in the present.
Blog Tour Schedule
Maximum 3 stops per day. Confirmed blogs will appear here.
18th January
Leanne bookstagram
@book.lover1486
19th January
TBHonest
@lornabookfan
20th January
Sharon Beyond The Books
Paper Moons & Prose
21st January
Sarandipity's
Left on the Shelf
22nd January
loopyloulaura
23rd January
C L Tustin -Author
malloch_books
24th January
The Mysterious Universe of Books
b for bookreview
Christian Bookaholic