![]() She offers 16-year-old peddler Evgenia a diamond in exchange for a ride on her old horse wagon. Her only hope of safety is finding her cousin who is stationed with the White Army. Seventeen-year-old Anna is the sole survivor after her family is assassinated in Ekaterinburg. SeptemIn 1918 Russia, czarist Anna and communist Evgenia form a tentative alliance to escape a ruthless Bolshevik commander. ![]() An imaginative retelling of the Anastasia story. ![]() With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna's offer and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the war.Īnna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks, and now-regardless of her loyalties-Evgenia is too.ĭaughters of a Dead Empire is a harrowing historical thriller about dangerous ideals, inequality, and the price we pay for change. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible-not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. ![]() Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war-the poor are devouring the rich. "This fresh, thrilling take on Anastasia establishes that O'Neil is a debut author to watch." - Buzzfeedįrom debut author Carolyn Tara O'Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution. ![]()
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