One of the greatest issues with picking up a book series comes when the quality of storytelling depreciates in later installments. Do you tough it through or cut your losses?

However, that’s not not an issue with Anna Lee Huber’s Verity Kent series; she managed to come up with thrilling narratives book after book.

Before “A Certain Darkness” — the sixth book in this seven-book series — British intelligence agent Verity Kent and her husband Sidney had tried to find proof against their nemesis, Lord Ardmore, and failed to find it. It’s now March 1920, and they have fallen into an unsettling lull, when they are suddenly summoned by the French police to a prison where one inmate is adamant that she has proof of Ardmore’s treason — but she will only share it with Sidney. Conveniently, Sidney and Verity are already on their way to France courtesy of Verity’s handler on an unrelated matter of great consequence.

Such begins another perilous journey for them both, one in which the lines between friend and foe blur. This time around, they will also have to face challenges inward as well as the harsh realties of the country.

Huber has manage to create one more wonderful book that transports the reader to the bleak and terrible state of the European countries after the World War I. That effect is only multiplied when we are forced to see the war through the eyes of a young couple, who were supposed to have a happy life, but are forced to instead get through the trauma caused by the war.

Though I didn’t initially care much for Sidney’s character, Huber has managed shape him into a tragic hero bogged forever by his traumatic experiences. I loved this book absolutely and can’t wait to read more of Huber’s work.

This book gets 5 out 5 stars.