"As the countess drifted from the room with a rustle of her silk skirts, there was an unmistakable look of triumph in her cool blue eyes."
The extract that I took from 'The Jewel of St Peterburg' was written by Kate Furnivall.
The novel is set in 1910 in Russia, when young Valentina Ivanova charms St Petersburg's aristocracy where her classic Russian beauty and her talent as a pianist.
The novel comes with a sense of love and courage, revenge and heartache in the last days of the Romanov Empire.
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