The Midnight News'Impressive and satisfying . . . a novel that succeeds both in creating pages that turn themselves, and in continually feeding the reader's sense of wonder' Daily Telegraph It is 1940 and twenty year old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the

Olivia Sutherland was convicted of plotting to murder her husband

now an influential figure in the Ministry of Security

Still there is hope: a way to banish him forever has been revealed

the prediction that Friday's Destiny-Aware colleagues will die in mysterious circumstances

the limits of love

shes the sort of person youd want to live next door to

Struggling to hide his dread

The Golden Bullet

Imogen and Marie must learn its secrets if theyre to save their families and stop Anneshka once and for all

and into a realization that he too may have something to answer for

but not alarmed

the other a man who claimed to be immortal