The House at Windward Bay

von John Bailey

264 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Three centuries after humanity spread to the stars, the frontier world of Meridian appears peaceful. Along the rugged coast of Windward Bay, fishermen, scientists, merchants, and travelers live quiet lives beneath gray skies and restless seas.

But peace can hide dangerous secrets.

When distinguished visitors begin arriving at an isolated boarding house overlooking the bay, Margaret Swensson senses that something is wrong. A courteous historian asks too many careful questions. A retired physicist seems interested only in rest. A government surveyor watches more than the coastline. Then a courier disappears without explanation.

Unknown to most of Meridian, agents of the authoritarian Southern Coalition have infiltrated the colony. Their objective is nothing less than the theft of a revolutionary propulsion technology that could alter the balance of power between rival interstellar civilizations.

As suspicion spreads through the small coastal settlement, ordinary people find themselves caught in an invisible war fought with deception, coded messages, hidden transmitters, and divided loyalties. Every conversation may conceal another layer of meaning. Every stranger may be someone else entirely.

Inspired by the classic wartime espionage novels and films of the 1940s while reimagined in humanity's early interstellar future, The House at Windward Bay blends traditional spy fiction, science fiction, and quiet mystery into a story of courage, sacrifice, and the people history rarely remembers.

Sometimes the fate of civilizations depends upon those who simply refuse to stop paying attention.