Winner of the Agatha Award, the Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel, and the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Historical Mystery. World War II reaches Farley Field, the family home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters. A paratrooper whose parachute failed to open falls into the field to his death. After his uniform and belongings raise suspicion, Ben Cresswell, an agent with the Fifth Section of British Military Intelligence and a family friend, is secretly tasked with determining whether the paratrooper is a German spy. This mission gives Ben the opportunity to be close to Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he silently loves. However, Pamela has a secret of her own: she has taken a job at a code-breaking headquarters in Bletchley Park.