Foul Lady Fortune

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends comes the first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders in 1930s Shanghai.
It's 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue.
Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging—and allows her to heal from any wound. In short, Rosalind cannot die. Now, desperate for redemption for her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country.
Code name: Fortune.
But when the Japanese Imperial Army begins its invasion march, Rosalind's mission pivots. A series of murders is causing unrest in Shanghai, and the Japanese are under suspicion. Rosalind's new orders are to infiltrate foreign society…

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Sandra Michaelhas quoted3 months ago
Who did this to you?” Orion’s voice was violently quiet. “I’ll kill them.”
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Sandra Michaelhas quoted3 months ago
It felt easier somehow. To adopt a foreign tongue for difficult matters, to blame that foreignness for the conversation’s friction. The version of him who spoke Shanghainese with his father wouldn’t give him attitude like this. That version of him, who had trust and love and belief for a father he admired, seemed to exist only in the past.
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Sandra Michaelhas quoted3 months ago
“Stop waving your feminine wiles in front of him like that. He’s not strong enough.”
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