?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...
