You Are My Sunshine is the sequel to All My Love, Detrick, set during the Holocaust. When Helga Haswell becomes pregnant by a married SS officer who abandons her, she finds herself alone and desperate. Afraid to tell her parents that she is pregnant out of wedlock, her doctor suggests that Helga check into Heinrich Himmler’s home for the Lebensborn. This program, instituted by the Nazis, aims to create perfect Aryan babies. Helga, being of pure German blood and the child's father an SS officer, is accepted. Her child will have a good life because adoption is available only to the finest of Hitler’s Elite. During her pregnancy, Helga will have the finest food and medical care available, and instead of a life of shame, she will be honored for her efforts in producing a perfect Aryan child for the new world that Hitler is creating.

However, by the time Helga feels life stir within her womb, it is too late. She has already moved into Steinhoring, home for the Lebensborn, and there is no possibility of turning back. The papers are signed, and she cannot escape. Hitler owns her unborn child. On a cold day in January, Helga’s little girl is born. But instead of being sheltered by her mother’s arms, she is torn away by the nurses at the home for the Lebensborn and thrust into a treacherous world where the very people sworn to protect her are not what they seem. The little girl grows amongst some of the cruelest people on earth, subjected daily to the ideology of the Third Reich.

But as Hitler, convinced of his invincibility, goes to war on two fronts, Germany begins to fall. The Nazis become fearful as America enters the war, joining Churchill against them in the west, while Stalin, a formidable enemy with brutal Russian winters on his side, rips them apart in the east. The tables turn on the Third Reich. The cruel Nazis, who believed they could not be defeated, are about to swallow their pride and surrender at the feet of the Allies. The superior race proves to be inferior after all. Hitler’s elite run for cover, some commit suicide, some are tried in Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, while others escape with their tails tucked between their legs to South America or other friendly ports.

But God has other plans for Helga’s tiny innocent child, born on that January morning. The child’s life is about to change in a very strange but significant way. Instead of becoming whom and what the Nazis had hoped to create, this child will be befriended and nurtured by the most unexpected people.