Nemesis — Alla Crone

What attracts most people to read a newly published book? They browse along the colorful bindings in a bookstore, pull out the titles that interest them, and read the summary. Is it a mystery, a historical, a contemporary? Is the setting of interest?Nemesis? Without giving away the secret that is at the heart of the story, you should know that for a long time it casts a dark shadow over the heroine's ability to live a full life after she makes a senseless mistake.This is a story of unforgiving guilt, until an unexpected redemption is offered this Russian woman who lives in Harbin, China, between 1909 and 1939, during the turbulent years of WWI, the fall of Imperial Russia, and emergence of Communist Revolution.