Charlotte, a former ballerina living in World War II occupied Paris, receives a surprise visit from a German officer. Once elevated to the Romanov's treacherous inner circle, Lena finds herself under the watchful eye of the meddling Dowager Empress Marie. After conceiving four daughters, the Empress is determined to sire a son and believes Lena can help her. Lena, a servant in the imperial Russian court of 1902, is approached by the desperate Empress Alexandra. As she sets about investigating the legitimacy of his claim through a winding path of romance and deception, the ghosts of her own past begin to haunt her. Veronica is an aspiring historian living in present-day Los Angeles when she meets a mysterious man who may be heir to the Russian throne. In her riveting debut novel, The Secret Daughter of the Tsar, Jennifer Laam seamlessly braids together the stories of three women: Veronica, Lena, and Charlotte. A compelling alternate history of the Romanov family in which a secret fifth daughter-smuggled out of Russia before the revolution-continues the royal lineage to dramatic consequences
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