The Wedding Invitation Cipher
A Romantic Suspense Novel

About this book:

Maeve Vance prints secrets for a living—she just doesn't know it until the night she puts a society wedding invitation under her magnifying loupe and finds a binary cipher pressed into the cotton fiber. The code spells out a vault location, a faked death, and a warning: *Julian knows.* Her client, the bride, didn't order stationery. She smuggled a master key into two hundred envelopes addressed to the city's most powerful families. Now the groom's disgraced, dangerous brother is standing in Maeve's doorway, her shop is watched by men in a blue sedan, and the only way out is to finish the print run—with a poison pill swapped into the border.

Jack Sterling has spent five years running from a legacy written in invisible ink. He never expected the woman who could decode it to be a letterpress artist with ink-stained fingers and a spine of steel. As rain hammers the cobblestones of North Street, Maeve and Jack race to burn a corrupted plate before the press falls silent, knowing the real invitations in her output tray are the only leverage they have. But the cipher doesn't end at the border's edge—each card holds a fragment, and the guest list is a hit list waiting to be assembled.

With the wedding forty-eight hours away, Maeve and Jack plunge into a war waged on ledger paper and bearer bonds, where a blind deboss can kill as surely as a bullet. From the hum of a 1952 Heidelberg to the sub-basements of Sterling Trust, every impression counts. In a world where families are mergers and love is a liability, the only truth left is the one you can feel pressed into the page.