Book Description

"When the author of an historical fiction novel about a real, well-known person can make you spend three hundred-plus pages wishing that the ending will change, you know she has done a good job. The hallmark of a good author is to make you care for the characters, and while some of the supporting characters are not as thoroughly depicted, this first-person account makes the reader care for and identify with Anastasia. It leaves the reader hoping that somehow the real history explained in the afterward is not real. A detailed cast of characters, real and fictional, at the beginning of this book, and the epilogue dividing fact from fiction, are icing on the cake for this fabulous historical novel."—VOYA

[Susanne Dunlap] writes with an elegant and classy style, right in the running with Louisa May Alcott and Jane Austen." —Teenreads.com

“The last tender moments between the lovers will make readers sigh.”--Booklist

“The writing is quite atmospheric, providing a sense of the physical, political, and historical environment at the time. It also conveys an incredible amount of detail about the Romanovs’ daily lives before and during their captivity, humanizing even the tsar and tsarista. The author articulates the emotions of the characters well, and Anastasia grows from a naive duchess to a young woman attuned to the social and political situation of the day.”–School Library Journal