World War II has just ended and Britain has established the Control Commission for Germany which oversees their zone of occupation The Control Commission hires British civilians to work in Germany rebuild the shattered nation and prosecute war crimes Somewhat aimless bored with her job as a provincial schoolteacher and unwilling to live with her stuffy genteel parents any longer twentysomething Edith Graham applies for a job with the Commission—but is instead recruited by the OSS To them Edith is perfect spy material…single ordinary-looking with a college degree in German And there’s another thing—the OSS knows that Edith’s brother went to Oxford with one of their most hunted war criminals Count Kurt von Stabenow who Edith remembers all too well from before the war Intrigued by the challenge Edith heads to Germany armed with a convincing cover story: she’s an unassuming schoolteacher sent to help resurrect German primary schools To send information back to her OSS handlers in London Ed