Ratings
Rated: 13 times. Average rating 4.08
Description
A historical novel set in the royal court in eighteenth-century St. Petersburg follows Xenia, who experiences a family tragedy and undergoes a profound transformation that alters the course of her life and instills fear in the heart of the new empress, Catherine.
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