"Creation Lake is a novel about a freelance agent, a 34-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and bold opinions and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. We never learn her real name. Sadie has met her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by "cold bump"-- making...

Recruited from Churchill's typing pool to become an undercover spy in German-occupied France, a young woman from London bravely endures daring missions, audacious escapes, and harrowing imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, risking everything for the country-and the man-she loves.

Everyone knows the Byron brothers are "mad, bad, and dangerous." But the devilishly desirable fourth son, Drake, is too scholarly to misbehave . . . or is he? Lord Drake Byron has no time in his busy life to worry about taking a wife. He is more interested in the unbreakable code he has developed to defeat Napoleon's forces. Little does he know that the irresistibly lovely new housekeeper he's hired is really a French secret agent. Sebastianne Dumont...

"Wbrew wiatrom wojny, podczas gdy Wehrmacht maszeruje Polami Elizejskimi, Coco Chanel mieszka obok Naczelnego Dowództwa Rzeszy w hotelu Ritz. Otoczona przez wroga toczy własną wojnę, aby wyrwać pełną kontrolę nad swoją firmą perfumeryjną z rąk swojego żydowskiego partnera biznesowego, Pierre'a Wertheimera. W obliczu narastającego antysemityzmu uciekł do Stanów Zjednoczonych z poufną formułą Chanel No. 5. Gdy Paryż tonie pod żelazną...