For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. Ruler, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary catches the play of an era of unparalleled challenge-and the greatness that rose to meet it.

London, 1940. Winston Churchill has simply been sworn in, battle rages across the Channel, as well as the risk of a Blitz looms bigger each day. But none of the deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college course and possesses all of the skills of the finest minds in United kingdom intelligence, but her gender about Mr. Churchill’s Secretary: A Maggie Hope Secret qualifies her and then be the most recent typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable presents for codebreaking, though, rival those of even the highest males in federal government, and Maggie finds that doing work for the leading minister affords her a level of clearance she could do not have imagined-and opportunities she will not let pass. In troubled, lethal times, with air-raid sirens sending multitudes underground, usage of the War Rooms also exposes Maggie towards the machinations of the menacing faction determined to do whatever needs doing to change the course of history.

Ensnared in a net of spies, murder, and intrigue, Maggie must function quickly to equalize her duty to Ruler and Country with her chances for survival. And when she unravels a mystery that points toward her very own family’s hidden secrets, she’ll discover that her quick wits are that stand between an assassin’s murderous strategy and Churchill himself.

In this daring debut, Susan Elia MacNeal blends meticulous research on the period, psychological insight into Winston Churchill, as well as the creation of a riveting main character, Maggie Hope, right into a spectacularly crafted novel.