Emily Paget, poor relation of an earl, shocks her family with her determination to earn her own living rather than suffer the tedium of a respectable marriage. Whisked off to St …
Visiting St Petersburg in the early 1850s, Fleur Hamilton - intelligent, attractive, independent, sensible - encounters Count Sergei Kirov. He puzzles her as much as excites her - …
When Anne Peters, a young Englishwoman, is offered a new life in St Petersburg as governess to Count Kirov's children, she finds herself caught up in the intense lives of the …