It is March 1938. Hitler has marched into Vienna to a triumphant reception but the 180 000 Jews living in the city fear the future. Katharine Simmons an undercover SIS agent working at the British Passport Office is distraught when her husband also an undercover agent is taken from their home & disappears without trace. Left alone in Vienna Katharines secret work prevents her from returning home but the noose is tightening around the SIS operatives as a suspected double agent is betraying them. Can the love of a mystery man save Katharine from the Gestapo? Who is her secret betrayer? & what is the past that haunts her? In this extraordinary debut novel love honor & power compete against a backdrop of the growing tensions of 1930s Vienna.