Landing by Moonlight
by Ciji Ware
Book 1 of Ciji Ware’s America Spy Sisters series is inspired by the exceptional American women who volunteered as secret agents for British Intelligence during WW II, dropped behind enemy lines where nothing could prepare them for the trial-by-fire to come–never knowing who is the betrayer and who will be betrayed in this, their finest hour. Based on the woman who stole crucial naval codes from Hitler’s henchmen and sprung the man she loved from a Nazi prison, her every move might have threatened the Allied victory itself.
The year is 1942, and American secret agent Catherine Thornton has no idea whether she will be dropped behind enemy lines in an inflatable raft launched from a submarine or be flung through the moonlit sky from a low-flying British Halifax. Either way, the young embassy wife and erstwhile journalist knows there’s always the chance she’ll be picked off by German sharpshooters, although nothing in her imagination prepares her for the trial-by-fire to come.
Only she understands why she volunteered for such “unwomanly warfare” and the secret reasons she joined a handful of female American spies destined to risk her gilded life on French soil–yet former Vichy diplomat Henri Leblanc, code name Claude Foret, thinks he knows the answers.
As Catherine’s missions grow more harrowing each day, and she fears she’s fallen in love with a captured fellow agent, the German SS begin to close in on the world of Madame “Colette Durand” and her Résistance network embedded in coastal cities along the French Riviera—an exposure that could threaten the Allied victory itself.
And hanging in the air like a half-opened parachute is the life-or-death question: Who is the betrayer and who will be betrayed in this, their finest hour?
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