Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this
wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect
of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow
prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd, and her
fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named
Vasily.
After a perilous escape, Sofia endures
months of desolation and hardship. But, clinging to a
promise she made to Anna, she subsists on the belief that
someday she will track down Vasily. In a remote village,
she’s nursed back to health by a Gypsy family, and there she
finds more than refuge—she also finds Mikhail Pashin, who,
her heart tells her, is Vasily in disguise. He’s everything
she has ever wanted—but he belongs to Anna.
After
coming this far, Sofia is tantalizingly close to freedom,
family—even a future. All that stands in her way is the
secret past that could endanger everything she has come to
hold dear...