The Envoy She Undid

Petra Lindqvist has spent her career saying other people's words. She is very good at it, and she is very tired. When the first Vashkan delegation in two hundred years arrives in Geneva, Petra is assigned as interpreter because she is the only one who can hold the envoy's accent. She notices within an hour that the envoy is not an envoy — he is his delegation's security chief, sent because the real one was poisoned before departure. She should report him. Instead she asks him for one true thing a day. The treaty has eleven days. There are eleven true things. There is also a poisoner still in the room, a word they cannot agree on, and an archive room at two in the morning. A steamy alien romance about the translator who hears everything and the soldier who decides to mean it.