Number Six

Ottilie Zimmermann is nearly ready to leave her secretive work behind and retire somewhere warm. Finishing business in Las Vegas brings her into contact with Monique Carson, whose openness about desire makes an inconvenient contrast to Ottilie's carefully managed privacy. Monique knows how to read people, but this commanding woman who can become almost invisible in company refuses to fit a familiar pattern. Ottilie, meanwhile, cannot quite explain why someone she considers so unsuitable remains on her mind. Set within Lee Winter's connected fictional worlds, this romance follows two perceptive women unsettled by the limits of their own expertise, and by an attraction that neither can neatly file away.