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High above the windswept heath, Cassia Moreland commands a secret kingdom of timber and rope. As the hidden keeper of Admiralty Station Number Four, she translates the silent language of shutters into the empire's lifeblood—numbers flashing across the sky at the speed of light. But when a frantic, impossible signal jams her frame in a rising storm, a stranger scales her tower: Luke Devane, the disgraced codebreaker whose brilliance sank a fortune in Spanish silver and destroyed his own career. He reads the corrupted message she cannot—a cipher that shouldn't exist, sent by a traitor's hand.
Thrown together in the cramped cabin as rain blinds the line, Cassia and Luke recognize a dangerous kinship: she, the woman the Navy List forgot; he, the man the Admiralty buried. To clear his name and protect the realm, Luke needs her eyes on the shutters. To keep her independence and her father's legacy, Cassia needs his mind on the code. But the message they're chasing leads straight into the heart of the establishment that ruined him—and the closer they draw to the truth, the more the line between duty and desire fractures.
In a world where a single flipped shutter can turn the tide of war, two brilliant outsiders must decode a conspiracy written in wind and wood before the next storm silences them both.
Fiction
November 6, 2026
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