![]() ![]() ![]() "Tightly plotted and compulsive, Daughters of a Dead Empire is simultaneously a heart-racing thrill ride across the landscape of revolutionary Russia and a tender, timely reflection on the reconciling power of friendship." -Amanda McCrina, author of Traitor and The Silent Unseen "O'Neil's thrilling, historically authentic novel is every bit as moving as it is harrowing. An imaginative retelling of the Anastasia story. Daughters of a Dead Empire is a harrowing historical thriller about dangerous ideals, inequality, and the price we pay for change. Anna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks, and now-regardless of her loyalties-Evgenia is too. 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. 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." - Buzzfeed From debut author Carolyn Tara O'Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution. ![]()
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