Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Date of publication: September 20, 2016
In a sweeping story straight out of Russian history, Tsar
Alexander I and a courageous girl named Nadezhda Durova join forces against
Napoleon.
It’s 1803, and an adolescent Nadya is determined not to
follow in her overbearing Ukrainian mother’s footsteps. She’s a horsewoman, not
a housewife. When Tsar Paul is assassinated in St. Petersburg and a reluctant
and naive Alexander is crowned emperor, Nadya runs away from home and joins the
Russian cavalry in the war against Napoleon. Disguised as a boy and riding her
spirited stallion, Alcides, Nadya rises in the ranks, even as her father begs
the tsar to find his daughter and send her home.
Both Nadya and Alexander defy expectations—she as a heroic
fighter and he as a spiritual seeker—while the battles of Austerlitz,
Friedland, Borodino, and Smolensk rage on.
In a captivating tale that brings Durova’s memoirs to life,
from bloody battlefields to glittering palaces, two rebels dare to break free
of their expected roles and discover themselves in the process.
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About Linda Lafferty
Linda Lafferty was a teacher for nearly three decades, in
schools from Madrid, Spain, to Aspen, Colorado. She completed her PhD in
bilingual special education and worked in that field; she also taught English
as a second language and bilingual American history. Linda is the author of
four previous novels—The Bloodletter’s Daughter, The Drowning
Guard, House of Bathory, and The Shepherdess of Siena—all
of which have been translated into several languages. The Drowning
Guard won the Colorado Book Award for Historical Fiction. She lives in
Colorado with her husband.
Linda Lafferty’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:
Tuesday, September 20th: Broken
Teepee
Wednesday, September 21st: BookNAround
Thursday, September 22nd: Books
Without Any Pictures
Monday, September 26th: Luxury Reading
Tuesday, September 27th: Let
Them Read Books
Thursday, September 29th: A
Holland Reads
Tuesday, October 4th: A Chick Who Reads
Wednesday, October 5th: Lit and Life
Thursday, October 6th: Reading is My Superpower
Friday, October 7th: From the TBR Pile
Monday, October 10th: Reading Reality
Wednesday, October 12th: Dwell in Possibility
Thursday, October 13th: Peeking Between the Pages
Monday, October 17th: Palmer’s Page Turners
TBD: Books N
Tea
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Thanks for featuring this book for the tour!
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