Title: Charity’s Code (Virtues and Valor, Part 3)
Author: Hallee Bridgeman
Pages: 96 (approximately)
Year: 2014
Publisher: Olivia Kimbrell Press
Note: I received a free eBook copy of this novella through
The Book Club Network in exchange for my honest opinion.
About the book:
The exciting
Virtues and Valor serialized story continues with book 3!
DOROTHY EWING
never met a crossword puzzle that she couldn't solve with shocking speed. As a
loving wife and mother of three children, she had an idyllic life with her home
and her puzzles – until she had to see her husband off to war. Then the bombing
of the Blitz began.
Now her husband
Tom is a POW in Occupied France, her children have been sent to the hopeful
safety of her parents’ home in York, and she is working at Bletchley Park as an
assistant to cryptanalysts. After cracking the code on an encrypted letter from
her husband, she is recruited into a special team called The Virtues.
She works on the
home-front, receiving and sending messages to her team in France and
coordinating a secret mission with her husband via coded letters. She
intercepts the transmission from TEMPERANCE alerting to her blown cover. The
clock is ticking in a race to save Temperance’s life. Information has to be
sent to and received from the team on the ground. Can Charity help save her, or
will the constraints of time and the efficiency of the Third Reich work against
them?
CHARITY’S CODE is
part three of seven serialized novellas entitled the Virtues and Valor series.
Seven valorous
women – different nationalities, ethnicities, and social backgrounds – come together
as a team called the Virtues.
In 1941 Great
Britain has a special war department that assembles an experimental and
exclusively female cohort of combat operatives. Four willing spies, a wireless
radio operator, an ingenious code breaker, and a fearless pilot are each
hand-picked, recruited, and trained to initiate a daring mission in Occupied
France. As plans are laid to engineer the largest prison break of Allied POWs
in history, the Nazis capture the Virtues’ radio operator. It will take the
cohesive teamwork of the rest of the women to save her life before Berlin
breaks her and brings the force of the Third Reich to bear.
Some find love,
some find vengeance, and some discover the kind of strength that lives in the
human heart when all they can do is rely on each other and their shared belief.
Courage, faith and valor intersect but, in the end, one pays the ultimate
price.
My review:
This is a
wonderful novella set during WWII.
This story is a
fantastic look at life for the wife of a WWII fighter pilot in England. I fell
in love with the main character, Dorothy Ewing, from the first moment we see
her with her husband and friends before the war starts. She is a wife and
soon-to-be mother. I was able to relate to her and her love for her husband and
her life. As the story progresses and England goes to war her strength and
courage come to the forefront. We quickly learn how God has prepared her to be
an asset to her country in their fight against Germany.
The story flows
smoothly and captured my attention. I couldn't stop reading it. I was
completely caught up in the ongoing story that began in part of this serialized
novel. I am going to have to read the rest of it. I need to find out how things
end up for all of these incredible characters.
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