1940. As England prepares to fight the Naz is\, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country esta te Bletchley Park\, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything&md ash\;beauty\, wealth\, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses&mdash\;but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl\, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secret s. Imperious self-made Mab\, product of east-end London poverty\, works th e legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the p otential in local village spinster Beth\, whose shyness conceals a brillia nt facility with puzzles\, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the P ark&rsquo\;s few female cryptanalysts. But war\, loss and the impossible p ressure of secrecy tear the three apart.
\n1947. As the royal weddin g of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fe ver\, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter--the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroy ed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterio us traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past\, and now Osla\, Mab\, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger -- and their true enemy -- closer.
\n--from Goodreads
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