SHE FIGHTS LIKE WICK, LIES LIKE VILLANELLE

For readers who crave cinematic espionage—multi-POV intrigue, layered threads, and the slow-burn tension of Le Carré fused with the relentless drive of Greaney.

She’s a spy.

He’s her teacher.

One artifact could kill them both.

Annouie Bach is finished.

Finished lying to her best friend.

Finished scraping by.

Finished pretending.

Then her handler makes her an offer: find the lost manuscript, and she’s free.

The catch? Go undercover as a student of Antony Meyer-Edwards—a brilliant, arrogant music prodigy with secrets darker than her own.

When the artifact lands on his doorstep, everything detonates. Rival operatives close in. Mercenaries want her dead. And the one man who might save her… could destroy her instead.

Meyer-Edwards is magnetic. Infuriating. Impossible to read.

Getting close could set her free—or cost her everything.

Mastering the Art of Deception is a sleek, slow-burn espionage thriller of mind games, simmering tension, and operatic stakes—for fans of Killing Eve, The Night Manager, and the unflinching grit of Le Carré and Greaney.This is the first book in The Gray Cat Files series.

About the author

Marlowe Edison grew up in a bustling coastal town in Australia, where books were abundant, music played on loop, and a typewriter was the perfect Christmas gift. Faced early with an impossible choice—film or music—she chose the path of the musician, only to later fall in love with cinema all over again. Before turning to fiction full time, Marlowe taught in schools, planning lessons by day and plotting tales of espionage by night. When not reading or writing, she listens to film scores and paints. She is currently hard at work on the next book in her series: Mastering the Game of Shadows.