The Tsar's Angel — M.K. Stelmack

The man she loves stands in the way of the man she's vowed to kill.

Set in 1825 Russia, on the eve of the First Russian Revolution, The Tsar's Angel draws together court opulence, military brutality, and revolutionary fervor into a singular drama of romance and intrigue.

Intent on recovering his family's estate, Captain Gavril Danilov of the imperial personal guard finds his loyalties tested by his growing feelings for the enigmatic Anna. She harbors a deadly secret: her father has purposed her to eliminate the very monarch Gavril serves.

As Anna trades her solitary life as a mercenary for the silken influence of the marriage-minded empress, both she and Gavril must navigate a world where trust is a luxury and love, a fraught web. Should personal desire ever outweigh the greater good? Their desires will not only shape their own fates but potentially alter the trajectory of a troubled nation.

Meticulously researched, The Tsar's Angel is a genre-defying epic that will leave you yearning for more from this vividly rendered realm of imperial Russia.