In an enthralling new historical novel
from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited
to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an
unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought
together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college
girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown
out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved
cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might
still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her
"little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to
London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a
sister.
1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the
fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she's recruited
to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the
mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of
secret agents right under the enemy's nose.
Thirty years later, haunted by the
betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days
drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges
in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launches them both on a
mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads.
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