Boston College graduate Elizabeth (Betsy) Millane has penned a novel based in part on her family’s experiences in occupied Holland during the World War II. Sixty Blades of Grass (Bloodhound Books, 2023) tells the story of Rika, a 17-year-old Dutch Resistance fighter. She paints in fields overlooking the busy rail yards, but hidden in her artwork is information crucial to the Dutch Underground. But Rika’s covert activities aren’t the only thing on her mind. She suspects her German-born father of collaborating with the Germans and is determined to uncover the truth. Sixty Blades of Grass has been called “a riveting, heartrending novel of danger and betrayal that explores what it takes to lay down one’s life for another in the most harrowing of circumstances.” Millane graduated from BC in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in English. It was during her junior year abroad that she visited her Dutch relatives several times and learned of their of heroism and sacrifice, which formed the basis for Sixty Blades of Grass.