She fell for the wrong woman ... now it's going to cost her. Amidst the backdrop of New York City during World War II, the seducer becomes the seduced in this spellbinding lesbian historical love story. Guilt-ridden over her part in her father's death, budding reporter Jenny Ryan gets an anonymous call that sets her on a path of intrigue and danger. The caller pins her father's death on a man selling secrets to the enemy: wealthy industrialist Marcus Forrester. In her plan to bring him down, she didn't count on falling for Forrester's mistress, Kathryn Hammond.Kathryn Hammond is a popular nightclub singer with elegant grace and stunning good looks, but she harbors a secret. Stuck stateside carrying out dead-end missions for the OSS while the war rages in Europe, her life is turned upside down when Jenny Ryan becomes her latest dead-end mission and awakens the enemy that could cost her everything-desire.Lush with the sights and sounds of the 1940s, this spellbinding slow burn love story will carry you deep into the shadow of the past and have you turning pages well into the night.In the Shadow of the Past is the first book in the noir Shadow series.