The Rasputin Dagger

Russia,

1916.

Nina Ivanovna?€™s world is in turmoil. Her only hope is to travel to St Petersburg, to escape the past and find a future.

Stefan Kolodin is a medical student ?€“ young and idealistic, he wants change for Russia and its people.

Amidst the chaos of a city in revolt, their lives collide. And a stormy relationship develops . . . full of passion and politics.

But soon Nina is drawn in to the glamorous, lavish lives of the Russian royal family ?€“ where she begins to fall under the spell of their mysterious monk, Grigory Rasputin. The ruby-studded dagger he carries ?€“ beautiful and deadly ?€“ could save her and Stefan from a cursed life

. . . or condemn them to it.

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