Bonnie Suchman is an attorney who has been practicing law for forty years. Using her legal skills, she researched her husband's family's 250-year history in Germany, and published a non-fiction book about the family, Broken Promises: The Story of a Jewish Family in Germany.   Through her research, Bonnie discovered the Heppenheimer family, a remarkable family whose history tells the story of Jews in Germany from the late seventeenth century through the Holocaust. The families of three Heppenheimer brothers – Joseph (Bonnie's husband’s great-grandfather), Lazarus, and Maier – were still in Germany when Hitler came to power. After she finished the non-fiction book, she realized she was not finished telling their stories. Bonnie decided to write their stories as novels and to write them as a trilogy. The first novel in the trilogy, Stumbling Stones, was published in 2024 and focused on the origins of the Holocaust as seen through the children of Joseph Heppenheimer, especially his remarkable daughter, Alice. What Remains is Hope tells the story of the Holocaust through the grandchildren of Lazarus Heppenheimer. The third novel will focus on the children and grandchildren of Maier Heppenheimer. Bonnie has two adult children and lives in Maryland with her husband, Bruce.