The Rose Code

by Kate Quinn

“Duty, honor, oaths—they are not just for soldiers. Not just for men.”

Mab says it all right here: women fight too, often heroically and often in the shadows, and I live for finding such women in the cracks of the history books. They lived, and they are legion. If I live to be a hundred, I will never run out of amazing historical women who fought tooth and nail for their countries, their families, and their lives—it is my pleasure and my privilege to help shine a little more light on their achievements, so they can receive the credit they deserve.