the Countess and Cipher: A Regency Spy Romance: 2

Cordelia and Max are married - but their happily ever after is already under siege. A challenge to the Ravenmere title has become public, Whitehall wants Max back in the shadows, and Sir Julian Ffoulkes knows exactly how to turn society gossip into a weapon. When the trail leads to a hostile country-house party, the new Countess of Ravenmere refuses to remain decorative. She learns cipher, code, disguise, and the art of being dangerously underestimated. Together, husband and wife uncover a conspiracy reaching from Mayfair drawing rooms to government corridors - and a secret heir with the power to change every future they imagined. The Countess and the Cipher is a married-couple Regency spy romance with country-house intrigue, coded flirtation, scandal-sheet warfare, hidden documents, secret-heir stakes, and a cliffhanger that tests love through state power rather than doubt.