To save her sister, who, along with her American diplomat husband and children, is trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Ruth Macallister embarks on a dangerous mission, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet agent forces them to make a heartbreaking choice.

June 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for...

"Not On My Watch tells the story of a small group of the US military intelligence operatives who were the tip of the spear to stop the Soviet Union from being the first to build and deploy an anti-missile defense system. Shrouded in secrecy the Det 3 Operations Group and Team Peregrine, based in Wiesbaden, Germany, operated under cover with the mission to penetrate the Soviet advanced research programs to develop a strategic anti-missile defense system....

"During the earliest days of the Cold War, the Soviets kidnap an important inventor who has been working on new technology for the USA. The Americans know they must free the inventor, who happens to also be a famous Hollywood movie star. A cat and mouse game between the new CIA and the Russian secret police begins in Vienna, moves to East Berlin, and eventually comes to a shocking climax on the Polish border"--Amazon.