Publisher's Synopsis
The Great War is over, but one young widow discovers the real intrigue has only just begun.England, 1919. Verity Kents grief over the loss of her husband pierces anew when she receives a cryptic letter suggesting her beloved Sidney may have committed treason before his untimely death. Determined to dull her pain with revelry, Veritys first impulse is to dismiss the derogatory claim. But the mystery sender knows too muchincluding the fact that during the war Verity worked for the Secret Service, something not even Sidney knew.Lured to Umbersea Island to attend the engagement party of one of Sidneys fellow officers, Verity mingles among the men her husband once fought beside and discovers dark secretsalong with a murder clearly meant to conceal them. Relying on little more than a coded letter, the help of a dashing stranger, and her own sharp instincts, Verity is forced down a path she never imagined and comes face-to-face with the shattering possibility that her husband may not have been the man she thought he was. Its a truth that could set her freeor draw her ever deeper into his deception.
