When their aunt comes to stay with them for a month, thirteen year old Drew Washington, and her seventeen year old sister, Erin, must solve the mystery of their parent's disappearance, with the help of their new found friend, Elijah Patterson. Along the way, they get tied up with the wrong mystery, and two secrets come crashing into each other all at once.

On September 8, 1941, the Nazi regime surrounded current day St. Petersburg, trapping millions of civilians, including fourteen-year-old Anastasiya Kolovsky and her family. Over a million Soviet Union civilians and soldiers died of starvation and bombardment during the infamous Siege of Leningrad, but will Anastasiya, a young, yet intelligent girl survive her teenage years in Leningrad? Read to find out!

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