num_pages: 289
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 whats left of her family and future Nadia marries a zealous Bolshevik in an act of calculated reinvention.It wont 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?
language: English
title: Red Mistress
publisher: Lake Union Publishing