Catherine Raynes: Books - The Diamond Eye and The House of Eve

<p><strong>The Diamond Eye – Kate Quinn</strong><span> </span></p> <p><span>The brand-new historical novel based on a true story from the bestselling author of The Rose Code and The Alice Network</span> <br>In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko’s life revolves around her young son – until Hitler’s invasion of Russia changes everything. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their country from the Fuhrer’s destruction. <br> <br><span data-contrast="auto">Handed a rifle, Mila discovers a gift – and months of blood, sweat and tears turn the young woman into a deadly sniper: the most lethal hunter of Nazis.</span> <br> <br><span data-contrast="auto">Yet success is bittersweet. Mila is torn from the battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America while the war still rages. There, she finds an unexpected ally in First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and an unexpected promise of a different future.</span> <br> <br><span data-contrast="auto">But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a terrifying new foe, she finds herself in the deadliest duel of her life.</span> <br> <br><span data-contrast="auto">The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> </span></p> <p><span><strong>The House of Eve – Sadeqa Johnson </strong></span><span> </span></p> <p><span>1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright.</span> <br> <br>Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at