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Also by Michelle Gable:

The Last 39 Seconds, February 2027
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Darling Beasts, July 2025
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Darling Beasts, July 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Beautiful People, April 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Lipstick Bureau, December 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Bookseller's Secret, August 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Summer I Met Jack, April 2020
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Summer I Met Jack, June 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
A Paris Apartment, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

THE LIPSTICK BUREAU
By: Michelle Gable

A Novel Inspired by a Real-Life Female Spy

Graydon House
December 2022
On Sale: December 27, 2022
Featuring: Niki Novotná
436 pages
ISBN: 1525804901
EAN: 9781525804908
Kindle: B09P1MQPQN
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography

1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers.

Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers and others—now nicknamed The Lipstick Bureau—find success, forming a bond amid the cobblestoned streets and storied villas of the newly liberated city. But her work is also a way to escape devastating truths about the family she left behind in Czechoslovakia and a future with her controlling American husband.

As the war drags on and the pressure intensifies, Niki begins to question the rules she's been instructed to follow, and a colleague unexpectedly captures her heart. But one step out of line, one mistake, could mean life or death…