I did not do any research on this book and purchased it thinking it was a biography. I was lucky - it is fiction; very good, entertaining fiction. Once I started I could not put it down. It follows the "nanny" of the Romanov children who has a gem stone eye. She does not age and spends years ...
I've always had a fascination with the Romanovs and their sad ending. This book is pure fiction and, whileI found it interesting, I didn't care for all the mysticism and switching between past and present. I usually have no problem with time switches, but I didn't think these were handled very ...
Now that the Empress has left, she releases the soft-footed servants from their duties, and they melt away through the numerous doors. She will honor her promise to model for Avram. She will do it in the nude. She will do it now. Do it to spit in the face of the Ancient On...
Enough to render impotent the most virile of men. I glance at his bulging crotch that is immune to this frigid environment and declare that I am so miserable without him that I neither notice or care about my surroundings. He stops in front of the dressing table. “A broken...