Showing posts with label Midnight in St. Petersburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Midnight in St. Petersburg. Show all posts

Friday, February 12, 2016

Showcase - Midnight in St. Petersburg by Vanora Bennett

Today I'm showcasing a new to me author Vanora Bennett and her new St. Martin's Press release, Midnight in St. Petersburg.
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ISBN-13: 978125007943
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: 01/19/2016
Length: 384pp

Buy It: B&N/Amazon/Kobo/IndieBound



Overview

Faberge jewels, the mysterious Rasputin, and a priceless violin: Each plays a part in one young woman's fight for survival, and for love, in revolutionary Russia.
St. Petersburg, 1911. Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle, but revolution is in the air, and as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her head.
She loves her brooding cousin, Yasha, but he is wild, destructive, and devoted to revolution. Horace Wallick, an Englishman who makes precious Faberge creations, is older and promises security and respectability. And, like many others, she is drawn to the mysterious, charismatic figure beginning to make a name for himself in the city: Rasputin.
As the rebellion descends into anarchy and bloodshed, a commission to repair a priceless Stadivarius violin offers Inna a means of escape. But what man will she choose to take with her? And is it already too late?
A magical and passionate story steeped in history and intrigue, Vanora Bennett's Midnight in St. Petersburg is an extraordinary novel of music, politics, and the toll that revolution exacts on the human heart.