The Stuff of Heroes

Georgia Nullgeben knows privilege inside out. As the daughter of the sector commander she is destined for the very top, most likely by way of marriage into one of the elite families that make up the new aristocracy of the new Europe.

Then she meets Mark Smith: a brilliant but entirely ordinary Englishman serving an indefinite sentence for standing on the fringe of the resistance. Mark is no obvious hero. He wants his freedom, nothing more, and Georgia represents a possible way out.

Resistance takes many forms under occupation. One of the brightest is the sheer defiance of the Beat Kids — teenagers playing the hateful music from America, that great centre of decadence. Mark is pulled into it, and a sharp mind for strategy carries him into a world he could very happily do without.

Book one of The Semblance of Order trilogy asks the question the title is already answering: what exactly is a hero made of, when heroism is the least survivable trait you can have?

What you're getting into

• Occupied Britain, rendered with unsettling ordinariness
• Music as rebellion, and rebellion as something you fall into
• A love story across an unbridgeable divide
• For readers of Robert Harris and C. J. Sansom

Book details

• Series: The Semblance of Order, Book One
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 978-1-999786-84-7
• Publisher: Newmore Publishing

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