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Pearl Wolf has woven a sweeping story of love, loss, and redemption across a glittering panorama of Mother Russia that captures you in its spell.
Hilliard & Harris Publishers
April 2003
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Featuring: Court Alexei Razovsky; Miriam Zeklinski; Dov Zeklinski
300 pages
ISBN: 1591330254
EAN: 9781591330257
Paperback
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Romance Historical
Prince Potemkin spent three years and ten million rubles
planning a historic Grand Tour of Crimea for Catherine the
Great. In the dead of winter Her Majesty departed from St.
Petersburg on a 4000–mile trek to Kiev, her eyes allowed to
gaze only on newly white–washed villages and well–fed,
well–dressed peasants along the way, a sight that gave rise
to the disparaging term still in use today: Potemkin Villages. On the eve of his beloved czarina’s departure, Potemkin gave
a Grand Ball to commemorate the occasion. But royal gossips
did not dwell on the czarina in whose name they feasted on
roasted meats, French champagne and Russian caviar.
Instead, all eyes were on someone exotic, someone
mysterious, and someone heretofore unknown to them. A beautiful young woman. A dark–eyed beauty clad in
exquisite ivory gown seeded with delicate traces of pearls
that complimented her almond eyes, ebony hair, and olive
skin. As she danced with Prince Potemkin, the crowded room
buzzed. Who was she? A sultan’s daughter? A princess from
Persia or Byzantium? Young Madame Miriam Zeklinski was a
beautiful Jewess destined to inspire love and lust in men
throughout the tumultuous events in Russia in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Miriam, Mirele to her family, was married to an ambitious
man, a cold hearted man with a brilliant financial mind and
the canny political wisdom to rise to the heights of
influence at Court–Dov Zeklinski Miriam’s heart aches for happiness and a child, but Dov
becomes increasingly distant as he pursues his ambition to
join the ranks of the privileged–to be accepted by Russian
society. Dov will sacrifice anything to achieve his goals,
including the love of his young wife. Miriam is too rare a jewel to go unnoticed, and although
neglected by her husband, she is not without suitors. The
dashing and handsome Court Alexei Razovsky pursues her and
Miriam cannot resist. She falls passionately in love with
Alexei. Palace intrigue threatens the lovers and Dov’s
ambition brings vicious enemies to their door. The Song of Miriam is the story of a beautiful woman raised
to take her place in the Royal society of Russia. Her loves,
her trials, and her determination to be happy clash with
devotion to her heritage in a world that is a contrast of
great beauty and hideous prejudice and violence.
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