Product Description: An entertaining parody of small-town manners and morals, this comic novella is a revelation When the aging Russian Prince, Prince K., arrives in the town of Mordasov, Marya Alexandrovna Moskaleva, a doyenne of local society life, takes him under her protection, with the aim of engineering his marriage with her 23 year old daughter Zina...read more

On her way to her uncle in distant Russia, Alison was fair game for the dashing and determined Prince Nikolai, who had never met a woman he could not win. The only person to whom she could turn was Francis Buckingham, the fiancé of her dearest friend, and the most handsome lord in England. Buckingham offered her safe haven from Nikolai's campaign of conquest, but at a price—a price that was high and kept getting higher. It began with risking her good name . . . then her virtue . . . then her heart.

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In turn-of-the-century Russia, Prince Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, fearing the end of the Romanov dynasty, embarks on a strange odyssey into the past and the future, seeking to conquer time and mortality to found a new kingdom