Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #3

Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes!

• The hunt BEGINS on March 19, 2026, at noon Mountain with Stop #1 at LisaBergren.com.
• Hunt through our loop using Chrome or Firefox as your browser (not Explorer).
• There is NO RUSH to complete the hunt—you have all weekend (until Sunday, March 22, 2026, at midnight Mountain)! So take your time, reading the unique posts along the way; our hope is that you discover new authors/new books and learn new things about them.
• Submit your entry for the grand prizes by collecting the CLUE on each author’s scavenger hunt post and submitting your answer in the entry form at the final stop, back on Lisa’s site. Many authors are offering additional prizes along the way—including me!

Hi! I’m Sarah Sundin, and my novels explore the drama, daring, and romance of the World War II era. When I’m not writing, I love teaching Sunday school, talking long walks with our dogs, and playing with my grandbabies! You can learn more about me and my books here on my website and on Facebook and Instagram. My latest novel, Mists over the Channel Islands, tells about life in the only British territory occupied by the Germans in World War II.

The German invasion of the British Channel Islands shatters Dr. Ivy Picot’s peaceful world, and she risks her life treating escapees from labor camps. Dutch engineer Gerrit van der Zee crosses paths with Ivy while building enemy fortifications—and sneaking maps to the resistance. As their missions grow increasingly dangerous, they must decide if love can survive the cost of defiance.

All her life, Ivy has been driven by compassion for the suffering. But to treat those who are suffering most under the German occupation would violate the law and put everything and everyone she loves at risk.

When Compassion Was Illegal – Medical Resistance in Jersey in World War II

When the Germans occupied Jersey in the British Channel Islands in July 1940, seventeen physicians remained on the island to treat the population of 40,000. The Germans requisitioned 90 percent of the General Hospital in the capital of St. Helier, leaving the medical community scrambling for space and equipment. The doctors soon encountered shortages of medications, soap, and medical supplies. Malnutrition due to strict rationing led to illness, epidemics, and wounds that wouldn’t heal. Later in the war, fuel for heat and electricity ran out, and doctors performed surgery by candlelight.

All of this would have been enough to keep Jersey’s Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Noel McKinstry, busy. But Dr. McKinstry also ran a secret ring to help escaped slave workers.

Jersey General Hospital, St. Helier, Jersey, April 30, 2024 (Photo: Sarah Sundin)

To build fortifications in Jersey, Germany’s Organisation Todt brought in several thousand foreign workers, including 1,500 Soviet prisoners of war, who received starvation rations and harsh discipline. Many workers escaped from their camps and were sheltered by civilians. Dr. McKinstry, other physicians, and concerned islanders organized care for these men. In addition to providing medical care, they obtained food and clothing, forged identity papers and ration cards, recruited safe houses, and transported the men between these safe houses, often using the island’s horse-drawn ambulance.

Helping their fellow human beings meant great risk. Informers, though rare, turned in their neighbors to curry favor with the Germans and receive monetary rewards. Those caught sheltering an escaped worker were sentenced to prison, and some helpers were deported to German concentration camps and died there. The physicians who ran this loose ring would have received especially harsh sentences, but none were caught.

German troops in St. Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands, 1 August 1941 (German Federal Archive: Bild 1011-228-0326-34A)

German regulations banned offering food or shelter to the suffering workers and required civilians to turn in escapees—and captured escapees were punished with harsh beatings, solitary confinement, and even lower rations.

All the people of Jersey who aided these workers broke the law, a quiet form of resistance that shouts through history. When compassion becomes illegal, what do you do?

Here’s the Stop #3 Basics:

If you’d like to hear how Dr. Ivy Picot became involved in this medical resistance ring, you can order Mists over the Channel Islands at Baker Book House, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ChristianBook or at your local bookstore!

Clue to Write Down: of the

Link to Stop #4, the Next Stop on the Loop: Carrie Stuart Parks’s site!

Extra Giveaway!

But wait! Before you go, I’m offering three copies of Mists over the Channel Islands to three entrants. All you have to do is sign up to get my e-newsletter (at the bottom of the page where it says “A Free Gift for You”) or already be a subscriber. (US mailing addresses only, please). Please enter the KingSumo giveaway below.