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THE ROSE CODE - KATE QUINN KARTONIERT (TB)

?The reigning queen of historical fiction? -- Fiona Davis  New York Times bestselling author of
The Lions of Fifth Avenu e 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...

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