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With her beloved cousin, Sarah, still languishing in a labor camp in Linz, Monika Ritter and her fellow OSS operative, Hans Viertel, return to Austria on a double mission—to rescue Sarah and investigate a possible new wonder weapon Hitler is developing in the city he regards as his hometown. After parachuting in, they pick up an unexpected guest who forces them to change their plans. In the labor camp at Linz III, Sarah cultivates her relationship with Wolfgang Baum, a foreman who is moved by the horror he witnesses in the factories.

Hiding out in a cave in the Austrian Alps with three others, Monika runs into trouble. Pursued by vengeful forces of the Wehrmacht and the Gestapo, she and her three companions undergo an arduous journey over the mountains to safety in a Catholic monastery outside the town of Hallein, near the German border. Meanwhile, Sarah is in Berlin, arranging with some of the highest-ranking German generals to assassinate Hitler and end the war. After being denounced by the local block warden, she is pursued through the streets and over the rooftops of Berlin.

Nell Harper has built a life defined by steadiness. At work, she is the person everyone trusts to keep things running smoothly. At home, she maintains a quiet routine that rarely surprises anyone—including herself. Even her divorce ended the way people admire: calm, respectful, reasonable. But praise has a strange shape when you hear it often enough. “You make things easy.” “You’re so dependable.” “You never make things difficult.” At first, Nell accepts these words the way she always has—as compliments. Proof that she has built a stable, responsible life.