It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her French cousin Rose might still be alive somewhere. In 1915, Eve Gardiner unexpectedly gets her chance to serve when she's recruited to work as a spy for the English. She's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launching them both on a mission to find the truth ...no matter where it leads.
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