Calculated risks!
Treacherous Is the Night (Verity Kent #2) by Anna Lee Huber
Verity and Sidney Kent may be united but four years of thinking your husband dead means you led a different life. No longer the woman who had a husband to consider, rather a woman grieving and determined to live life, take chances and trying to bury the sorrow.
So it's no wonder Verity and Sidney are experiencing alienation, confusion with seemingly no way of going forward.
Add to this Verity being dragged to a seance where the medium exposes facts that are not to be revealed under the Secrets Act and it seems something more sinister might be looming.
This leads to Verity searching for a traitor, a spy.
Verity and Sidney follow a convoluted trail to Belgium with mistrust and murder dogging their steps. Their journey ranges over sites between Germany and France that Verity knew as an undercover agent. The magnitude of Verity's role as a Secret Service agent working in Europe becomes clearer to Sidney. Not helped is the realization that his "death" drove Verity to such action.
Their situation is made even more tense as two men attracted to Verity during her "widowed" years join them.
Tighter writing than the first in the series, the various undercurrents between the characters and the situations present ramp up to a breaking point that resolves satisfactorily, with just the right British upper crust panache.
A most worthy blend of mystery and spy craft with just the right dash of romance and darkness.
A NetGalley ARC
*****
So it's no wonder Verity and Sidney are experiencing alienation, confusion with seemingly no way of going forward.
Add to this Verity being dragged to a seance where the medium exposes facts that are not to be revealed under the Secrets Act and it seems something more sinister might be looming.
This leads to Verity searching for a traitor, a spy.
Verity and Sidney follow a convoluted trail to Belgium with mistrust and murder dogging their steps. Their journey ranges over sites between Germany and France that Verity knew as an undercover agent. The magnitude of Verity's role as a Secret Service agent working in Europe becomes clearer to Sidney. Not helped is the realization that his "death" drove Verity to such action.
Their situation is made even more tense as two men attracted to Verity during her "widowed" years join them.
Tighter writing than the first in the series, the various undercurrents between the characters and the situations present ramp up to a breaking point that resolves satisfactorily, with just the right British upper crust panache.
A most worthy blend of mystery and spy craft with just the right dash of romance and darkness.
A NetGalley ARC
*****
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