Asya A Gripping Novel of Identity and Love, A Novel

Born with the new century, Princess Asya is drawn at an early age into the turbulent destiny of her country. After the idyllic splendor of her childhood is shattered by the outbreak of the Russian civil ar, she meets Sergei a dashing artillery officer, and falls in love for the first time. But their ecstatic love is brief. Fleeing the Bolsheviks, Asya moves to Paris bearing a fatherless son, and here amoung the community of exiled Russians Sergei reappears, only to draw her into a web of political intrigue, espionage and betrayal. A powerful love story that bears witness to the complex forces, both deeply private and harshly public, that shape our lives.