A gripping historical novel of love, divided loyalties, and the price of silence War’s Labyrinth follows two American sisters and one British agent through the moral fog of World War II and the Cold War, when secrets dramatically changed lives. In 1940s Washington, D.C., Vera Taskinen works inside the Roosevelt White House, navigating wartime politics and a romance with a British agent named David. Her younger sister Ana, decoding Soviet cables for a highly classified project, uncovers evidence that David may be a double agent. When she leaks the information, the consequences ripple across continents — shattering trust and entangling loyalties forever. From high-level meetings in Washington, London, and Moscow, to sabotage missions against the Nazis, to the quiet bunkers of cryptanalysts, the novel explores choices made in the shifting shadows of war. It is a story about the boundaries of loyalty—personal, political, and familial—and the haunting cost of silence in an age of espionage. "A riveting and emotionally layered portrait of how global conflict reshapes personal lives... an authentic and powerfully written work of historical fiction." - Rob Fairweather, former senior official, Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs "A gripping World War II and Cold War story of two ambitious sisters-one a national security staffer in the White House, the other a gifted Soviet code breaker-who share everything until one vanished love, and one dangerous truth, drives them apart. Taut, emotionally resonant, and deeply human." - John Roth, former senior official, Office of the Secretary of Defense Kathleen Peroff is the author of War's Labyrinth and Secrets of Leningrad, historical novels shaped by her exploration of power, secrecy, and the personal cost of global conflict. Her fiction draws on a lifetime of international travel and senior government service dealing with national security issues. She lives in Virginia and is currently at work on her third novel.