Some loves are not lived - only carried.In war-torn Poland, 1942, Zofia is a resistance courier risking everything beneath Nazi occupation. Klaus is a disillusioned German soldier, quietly defying orders, clinging to a truth the war wants to erase: her.Their paths cross only briefly - a moment carved in silence and stolen letters. But as the war deepens, so does the distance. Across forests and borders, through forged identities and broken safehouses, Zofia fights to stay alive. Klaus fights to find her. Both refuse to forget.Decades later in New Zealand, a nurse named Prescilla finds a journal in the hands of a dying man in Room 12 - Klaus. Within its pages lie memories not her own... and words that were never meant to fade.As the past unfolds in fragments, Prescilla uncovers the love story that time couldn't erase - and the truths buried in pages that never reached their destination.They Found Spring is a sweeping, bittersweet novel of forbidden love, memory, and resistance - where hope survives even when lovers don't.