Red Mistress

A Novel

by Elizabeth Blackwell

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Pub Date Jul 21 2020 | Archive Date Aug 04 2020

Lake Union Publishing

General Fiction (Adult) | Women's Fiction

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Description

In the wake of the Russian Revolution, a determined young woman breaks with her past to become a spy in 1920s Paris, where shadowy intrigues and a dangerous romance put her loyalty to the test.

In the spring of 1914, Nadia Shulkina, the daughter of Russian aristocrats, looks toward a bright future. She has no premonitions of war, let alone the revolution that is about to destroy her comfortable world.

Her once-noble family is stripped of every possession, and more terrible losses soon follow. To save what’s left of her family and future, Nadia marries a zealous Bolshevik in an act of calculated reinvention.

It won’t be her last.

When she agrees to work undercover for the Soviets in 1920s Paris, Nadia is drawn into a beautiful yet treacherous world of secrets and deceit. Beset by conflicting loyalties and tested by a forbidden love affair, she becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that ends with a shocking murder. What chances will she take to determine her own fate?

In the wake of the Russian Revolution, a determined young woman breaks with her past to become a spy in 1920s Paris, where shadowy intrigues and a dangerous romance put her loyalty to the test.

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A Note From the Publisher

Elizabeth Blackwell is the author of On a Cold Dark Sea, In The Shadow of Lakecrest, and While Beauty Slept. A graduate of Northwestern University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she lives outside Chicago with her family and piles of books she is absolutely, positively going to read someday. For more information about the author, visit www.elizabethblackwellbooks.com.

Elizabeth Blackwell is the author of On a Cold Dark Sea, In The Shadow of Lakecrest, and While Beauty Slept. A graduate of Northwestern University and the Columbia University Graduate School of...