In the midst of this intrigue, Maggie is shocked to learn that her father is still alive. Maggie and her friends are caught up in the situation when it appears one of them may be aiding the IRA. While the Luftwaffe is raining bombs on London, the IRA is doing its best to help Germany with sabotage and espionage. She does her best with her job and enjoys a busy social life with her friends and roommates: Chuck, an Irish girl training to be a nurse Paige, a Virginia debutante Maggie met in college Annabelle and Clarabelle, “the Dumb-Belles” and, most recently, Sarah, a ballerina. Her friend David Greene, one of Winston Churchill’s private secretaries, prevails on Maggie to take on a secretarial post at 10 Downing Street, where her predecessor was murdered. Her degree in math from a prestigious college apparently means nothing when she applies for jobs that would use her considerable skills to aid Britain, now in the throes of World War II. Unable now to sell her grandmother’s house, Maggie is forced to take in roommates to keep things going. Maggie Hope was born in England, but after her parents were killed in a car accident, her aunt, a college professor, took her along when she accepted a position in Boston. Trying to sell your grandmother’s decaying Victorian house back in London can have unexpected consequences.
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