"The reigning queen of historical fiction" -- Fiona Davis, New York
Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The
Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping
World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and
the spy they must root out after the war is over.
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different
women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where
the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes.
Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything--beauty, wealth,
and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses--but she burns
to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German
to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made
Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary
codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a
socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the
potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a
brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one
of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. But war, loss, and the
impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.
1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are
reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried
in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of
them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the
shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must
resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each
petal they remove from the rose code brings danger--and their true
enemy--closer...
