Klara

"I could taste his blood in my mouth, the weight of his lifeless body crushing me to the hard marble floor, sucking the breath from my lungs. Screams echoed through the air all around me piercing through the heavy fog of my shock. "Lady Klara.." piercing gray eyes locked to mine. He had come back."

The year is 1917, and Imperial Russia is in Turmoil. Tsar Nicholas II is trying desperately to maintain control of his fracturing empire, but the seeds of revolution have been planted, and they are ready to bloom blood red.

On her secluded Estate outside of St.Petersburg, Lady Klara-Raissa Vorontsova-Dashkova has been insulated in a happy world of wealthy country life, but the war sweeps into her life like a tide that knows no ebb. With the deaths of both her parents, her only option to save the last remnants of her dishonoured family is marriage.

She is finally to be presented at Nicholas's court, but the evening of her presentation is the very night that has lived on in infamy throughout modern history, and one that changes the course of Klara's young life forever...