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Winter 1916: St. Petersburg, Russia, is on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Females, an English governess is looking forward to her young fee to be released from college. But so are the Tsar's top secret police force...
Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother functions with Rasputin and their dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to experience her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and seduction.
Twenty years on, Sashenka is hitched to a robust, rising Red head with whom she's two children. Around her people are disappearing, while in the top secret world of the elite her own family is safe. But she's going to embark on a forbidden romance that will have damaging consequences.
Sashenka's history lies covered for half a century, until a young historian moves deep into Stalin's private archives and uncovers a heartbreaking story of betrayal and redemption, savage cruelty and unpredicted heroism -- and one woman pressured to make an intolerable choice.
