It opens at a state ball in Berlin in January 1801, where a young English soldier of fortune named Wilfrid accepts a dangerous proposal. The road leads to St. Petersburg, a princess with a claim to the throne, and the conspiracies swirling around the Czar and his minister Count Pahlen, with inns, bedchambers and palace corridors as the battlegrounds.
A dashing cloak-and-sword romance for readers who like their intrigue set against the snows of imperial Russia. Download the free EPUB.