Lady Adelaide leads a double life that sits ill with her... In Edwardian Britain, Lady Adelaide Azalea Margaret de Morville, Mrs. Hugh Becket, finds her work for William Melville, spymaster, clashes with the life her society friends believe her to be leading. Her guilt rises when her very dear friend, Isa Hass, arrives from Cape Town and asks questions Adele cannot answer. When a homeless urchin, Charlie Rowbottom, hands a note written in German code over to Adele, she struggles to keep her true nature separated from her position in society while she searches for the writer of the note. This novelette is the fourth in the Adelaide Becket Edwardian espionage series. 1: The Requisite Courage 2: The Rosewater Debutante 3: The Unaccompanied Widow 4: The Lavender Semaphore ...and more to come. A historical suspense espionage novelette. ___ Praise for the Adelaide Becket series: Tracy takes you again back in time to an era you could only imagine about but brings it in vivid color through her story A delightful game of cat and mouse I thoroughly enjoyed this magnificent first in series book!! The writing style is easy to read and the plot COMPLETELY unpredictable!! It was a marvelous escape from reality Breathtaking start to a fantastic new series by Tracy Cooper-Posey. Succinct and yet rich in the details that create historical immersion and scenes I found easy to imagine being a part. I loooove good quality writing and I love a new series like a junkie. Just give it a try, you won't be disappointed! ____ Tracy Cooper-Posey is a #1 Best Selling Author. She writes historical fiction and romantic thrillers. She has published over 120 books since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award. She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, and a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for "Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding." She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught genre fiction writing at MacEwan University. She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.