The Resistance
(2023)(The third book in the Daughters of the Empire series)
A novel by Suzette Hollingsworth
Against all reason, the Contessa of Silviatti is in love with her husband, a charismatic Italian nobleman who makes a game of bedding other women. While spying on the count, a public horror encroaches upon Sophia's private nightmare: Adolf Hitler.
Traveling in the same circles as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, the Contessa of Silviatti puts her newly found spying abilities to work for the Allied cause: she enters a career of espionage as a double agent and takes on the code name of Strega (Witch).
The Viscount of Saint-Cloud paints portraits of the aristocracy, making him the disappointment of his conservative British political family. No one suspects that Saint-Cloud is the anti-Nazi underground political cartoonist The Shadow Knight—or that he is a spy.
The Shadow Knight showcases the Contessa of Silviatti, believed to be a Fascist, in his cartoons. To her horror, the war effort is threatened as she is cast into the limelight, compromising her cover, her position as an insider in the Third Reich, and her family's safety.
Strega has no choice but to remove the Shadow Knight. Permanently.
Will these star-crossed lovers see past the deception and shattering loss - or - will war games eradicate their chance at love?
A World War II historical romantic suspense. Action Adventure with daring air fights, perilous naval battles, hand-to-hand combat, dare-devil rescues, espionage, and intrigue during the most dangerous time in human history when 'saving the world' was real. A thrilling, death-defying venture with larger-than-life characters pushed to be their best selves in a true fight of Good against Evil.
Genre: Mystery
Traveling in the same circles as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, the Contessa of Silviatti puts her newly found spying abilities to work for the Allied cause: she enters a career of espionage as a double agent and takes on the code name of Strega (Witch).
The Viscount of Saint-Cloud paints portraits of the aristocracy, making him the disappointment of his conservative British political family. No one suspects that Saint-Cloud is the anti-Nazi underground political cartoonist The Shadow Knight—or that he is a spy.
The Shadow Knight showcases the Contessa of Silviatti, believed to be a Fascist, in his cartoons. To her horror, the war effort is threatened as she is cast into the limelight, compromising her cover, her position as an insider in the Third Reich, and her family's safety.
Strega has no choice but to remove the Shadow Knight. Permanently.
Will these star-crossed lovers see past the deception and shattering loss - or - will war games eradicate their chance at love?
A World War II historical romantic suspense. Action Adventure with daring air fights, perilous naval battles, hand-to-hand combat, dare-devil rescues, espionage, and intrigue during the most dangerous time in human history when 'saving the world' was real. A thrilling, death-defying venture with larger-than-life characters pushed to be their best selves in a true fight of Good against Evil.
Genre: Mystery
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