The Rose Code

by Kate Quinn

She didn’t want a calmed, soothed mind; she wanted impossible work that her brain converted to the possible by the simple process of wringing itself inside out until the job was done. Every day for four years her brain had been tasked to the breaking point, and she had lived in glorious Technicolor.

“It wasn’t our job to decide what the right thing was.” “It’s every thinking human being’s job,