Author: awhartoin

November 1939It’s been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the Earl of Bickford pulls her from her … from her training early. The earl uses his influence to make her a courier, a job well below her skills, but it’s not as simple as…

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Time heals all wounds…unless it doesn’t. In 1965, a young woman in love and a veil was kidnapped and found murdered in a small Missouri town. A priest took the fall, literally. But the FBI has now discovered a clue among the bodies found in Kansas and it’s time to take another look at a crime nobody wanted to investigate. And nobody wants to investigate now, least of all, Mercy Watts. She just … Watts. She just wants a vacation, not another problem, certainly not the cold case from hell. Greece is calling. A beach and drinks with little umbrellas…

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In 1938, wealthy American newlyweds Stella and Nicky travel to Vienna for their honeymoon — but as World War II breaks out, they’re swept up in its horrors. And when Stella promises to deliver a package to Paris, they embark on a perilous journey across Europe…

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