The Edelweiss Cipher

<p><strong>She guards a secret that could rewrite the future. They'll stop at nothing to own it.</strong></p><p>In the timeless Swiss village of Alpenruh Anja Weber is the last in a long line of master watchmakers. Her life is one of quiet precision spent restoring antique timepieces and guarding her brilliant grandfather's greatest legacy: the designs for the Edelweiss escapement. A revolutionary mechanism it's rumored to be a perpetual motion engine-virtually frictionless and completely untraceable.</p><p>When a charming mysterious stranger named Liam O'Connell arrives from London Anja's ordered world shatters. A brutal break-in reveals he is not the tourist he appears to be and that powerful shadowy forces now hunt for her grandfather's work. Their goal: to weaponize its unique properties for a new era of untraceable global surveillance.</p><p>Forced to flee her alpine sanctuary Anja has no choice but to trust Liam the very man whose past actions put a target on her back. Together they are plunged into a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of London from the tranquil South Bank to the glass-and-steel fortresses of Canary Wharf.</p><p>But the hunters are always one step ahead. To survive Anja must transform from a quiet guardian into a cunning strategist. The key to victory lies not in running but in turning the tables. The final secret isn't on paper-it's locked inside a single legendary watch hidden in the most secure horological archive in the world.</p><p>Now the watchmaker and the spy must pull off an impossible heist: to steal back a masterpiece from the heart of a fortress before time runs out for them both.</p><p><br> </p>