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Please join us in the bookstore for a Coffee with the Author with Katherine Reay to celebrate her new book, A Shadow in Moscow. This is a free, in-store event! Katherine will be in the bookstore from 10:00 - 11:00 am. Drop-in for a cup of coffee and a signed book! Please email [email protected] to reserve your spot. Katherine Reay, award-winning author of Dear Mr. Knightley , will be joining us in the bookstore for a Coffee with the Author event, celebrating the release of her new novel, A Shadow in Moscow! Enjoy a coffee (or multiple) and pastry on us while chatting with Katherine in an intimiate setting. Katherine will be mingling around the room, answering your questions, and signing and personalizing books. This is a free, in-store event. Katherine will be in the bookstore from 10:00 - 11:00 am. Drop-in for a cup of coffee and a signed book! Please email [email protected] to reserve your spot. We hope to see you there! ABOUT A SHADOW IN MOSCOW A betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet spy and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit. As the KGB closes in, a compromise must be struck if either woman hopes to survive. Vienna, 1954. After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker, following him home to Moscow. But nothing deep within the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime is what it seems, including her new husband, whom Ingrid suspects works for the KGB. Upon her daughter’s birth, Ingrid risks everything and reaches out in hope to the one country she understands and trusts — Britain, the country of her mother’s birth — and starts passing along intelligence to MI6, navigating a world of secrets and lies, and light and shadow. Washington DC. 1980. Part of the Foreign Studies Initiative, Anya Kadinova finishes her degree at Georgetown University and boards her flight home to Moscow, leaving behind the man she loves and a country she’s grown to respect. Though raised by dedicated and loyal Soviet parents, Anya soon questions an increasingly oppressive and paranoid Soviet regime at the height of the Cold War. When the KGB murders her best friend, Anya picks sides and contacts the CIA. Working in a military research lab, Anya passes along Soviet military plans and schematics in an effort to end the 1980s arms race. Alternating between points of view, the past catches up to the present when an unprecedented act of treachery in 1985 threatens all undercover agents operating within the Soviet Union and both women find themselves in a race against time and the KGB.  ABOUT KATHERINE REAY:  Katherine Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author of several novels. She has enjoyed a lifelong affair with books and history, and brings that love to her stories. Katherine has also written one full-length nonfiction work. She holds a BA and MS from Northwestern University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and has lived across the country with a few years in England and Ireland as well. A full-time author and mother of three children, Katherine and her husband currently live outside Chicago, IL. This is a free, in-store event. Please email [email protected] to reserve your spot!