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Cypher

Violet Wells

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Cypher

Violet Wells

Through the swirl of clouds, their pageantry of metamorphosis, the earth looks like a childhood memory. Something still and finished and remote.

During the Battle of Britain Evie Devereux is a WT operator in the ops room of one of 11 Group’s sector airfields. Here she commences an affair with a Spitfire pilot. As the battle hots up the strain of worrying constantly for his safety becomes too much for her and she ostentatiously betrays him for another man. To push him away. A week later he is shot down and reported missing.
In 1943 she joins SOE and is parachuted into France. Here she meets up with her pilot boyfriend again. Both now have different identities.
The Spitfire pilot is Jack Cave whose working class father was shot as a deserter in the First World War.His heritage is the bane of his life. Never more so than when he falls in love with the aristocratic Evie. When he is forced to take on another man’s identity he feels finally liberated from his past. And then, trailed by the Gestapo, he meets Evie again.

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Paint

Violet Wells

rank 98

Paint

Violet Wells

“Today's target is Florence.”

Freddie St Aubyn pilots a Lancaster bomber. Today he will have to drop his load of bombs on the city where his wife lives.

His wife Isabella is an Italian portrait painter. She paints from nature, she paints what she sees.

Oskar Joos studied at the same art school as Isabella. He is a German Jew. Living in Paris when war broke out. He escaped the 1942 roundup of Jews and has arrived in Italy with his young daughter.

Florence between September 1943 and August 1944 is a city in the thrall of the secret police. A city where most are in hiding, masked behind fake identity papers; where it is dangerous to trust anyone with the truth, where no one is allowed to know what the truth is.

Isabella continues to paint. Continues to pursue the truth of her vision. Until she is called upon to forge an old master painting for a high ranking SS officer. Pontormo's image of St Anthony, patron saint of lost things.

Freddie, Isabella and Oskar will all end up in the hands of the secret police. Will all be barked at to relinquish their truths, the truth of who they are.

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The Dead Star Game

Violet Wells

rank 131

The Dead Star Game

Violet Wells

There's one secret that can't be downloaded.

Year 2072. The NWO, or the Illuminati, governs what’s left of the world’s population. Aika and Solstice are two barcoded cash neutrals. Standby infant bearers. Food packagers inside the Grid. Leisure time is all about watching The Game.
Then one day Solstice is mysteriously evicted from the Grid and Aika is enrolled in The Game.
On the Outside Solstice is being set up by the Illuminati as a patsy for the assassination of Her Holy Eminence the Observer. In The Game Aika’s task is to learn the ancient disciplines and wisdom of the Toltec sorcerers. Both Aika and Solstice are dependent on gaining the ascendancy over invisible forces for their survival. .

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