Ways We Hide: A Novel

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From New York Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris, and inspired by stunning true accounts, a story about the wars we fight-between nations and inside ourselves-and the courage we find in unexpected places From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday comes a sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British Intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path Raised amid the hardships of Michigan's Copper Country, Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist, behind the curtain she's the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the traumas of her youth. For all her planning, however, Fenna fails to predict being called upon by British Intelligence. Tasked with creating escape tools to thwart the Germans, MI9 seeks those with specialized skills for a war nearing its breaking point. Fenna reluctantly joins the unconventional team as an inventor. But when a test of her loyalty draws her deep into the fray, she discovers no mission is more treacherous than escaping one's past. Inspired by stunning true accounts, The Ways We Hide is a riveting story of love and loss, the wars we fight-on the battlefields and within ourselves-and the courage found in unexpected places.

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A September 2022 LibraryReads Selection

A BookBub Best Book of Fall 2022

A Parade Fall 2022 Favorite

Epic in scope and breathless in pace... It also just might convince you of the magic behind the illusions. -- The Book Reporter

Readers interested in historical fiction, Houdini's illusions, Depression-era United States, wartime London, and the Nazi Resistance in Holland will be quickly captured by the realistic characters and situations. -- Booklist, STARRED review

The Queen's Gambit meets The Alice Network in this epic, action-packed novel of family, loss, and one woman's journey to save all she holds dear--including freedom itself. -- Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Forest of Vanishing Stars

A riveting tale of intrigue and illusion, danger and historical mystery, but at its heart the story of one woman's struggle to escape her own past. While using her remarkable skills to help captured soldiers, Fenna finds herself face-to-face with what she loves most and what she fears most, trapped in a place where each decision she makes could unlock the paths to freedom and a future... or death. -- Lisa Wingate #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours

Just like her heroine, Kristina McMorris works magic in this twisting tale of James Bond's Q meets World War II. I love this book! -- Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code and The Diamond Eye

Author Bio

KRISTINA MCMORRIS is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Sold on a Monday. Her novels have garnered more than twenty national literary awards, and include Letters from Home, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves, The Pieces We Keep, and The Edge of Lost, in addition to novellas featured in A Winter Wonderland and Grand Central. She lives with her husband and two sons in Oregon.