A Song Unheard

by Roseanna M. White Book 2 in the Shadows Over England series.

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At the beginning of the First World War, violinist Willa Forsythe is ordered to steal a valuable cipher from Belgian musician Lukas De Wilde. Lukas is trying to locate and protect his family after the German invasion while guarding his late father’s cryptographic work. Their growing attachment is compromised by Willa’s obligation to the criminal family that raised her and by enemy agents seeking the same code.

The cipher makes music part of wartime intelligence: Lukas's skill and family inheritance are valuable precisely because military powers believe information can change the course of the conflict. Willa's criminal upbringing has taught her theft and deception, but the German occupation of Belgium forces her to consider whom those skills now serve. Romance grows inside a mission where honesty may endanger both of them.