The unexpected passing of novelist and former agent for the Secret Intelligence Service, Alexander Wilson, leaves his wife, Alison, with little choice but to unravel the secrets he kept. Whispers from his past begin to surface, demanding to…

Back at Coleman’s, Alison pressed him for an explanation of Dorothy’s identity. Coleman urged her to cease her inquiries, his tone laced with a veiled warning: continued pursuit might have serious consequences for his sons.

Alison was adrift in a sea of contradictory accounts of her husband’s history, and a disquieting truth about his profession had shaken her to the core. The foundations of her understanding, painstakingly built over years, now seemed to crum…