The Librarian Spy

by Madeline Martin

There was nothing Ava Harper loved more than the smell of old books.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

The world wanted Hitler to fail, and Elaine was proud to finally be doing her part.

Instead, she faced some juvenile rite of passage after being flirted with by a Nazi and called out by a man who knew more about her than she did him. Aristotle once said that patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Plato said courage was knowing what not to fear. In looking back on her time in Lisbon, Ava realized now that wisdom was also knowing what to fear.