SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN'It makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme' - Daisy GoodwinLover, mother, murderer, Tsarina1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta is sold into labour at the age of fifteen - where in desperation she commits a crime that will force her to go on the run. Cheating d...

Discover the highly acclaimed historical fiction series set within the glittering and ruthless House of Romanov.'Gripping … Who would not want to spend more time in the mad, bad world of the Romanovs?' The Times'A delicious hotbed of greed, lust and envy' Heat-----------When they took everything from her, they didn't count on her fighting to get it back...

When they took everything from her, they didn't count on her fighting to get it back ... Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and Catherine I, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the world's loveliest Princess and the envy of the Russian empire. Insulated by luxury and as a woman free from the burden of statecraft, Elizabeth is seemingly born to pursue her passions. However, a dark prophecy predicts her fate as inexorably twined with Russia. When her mother dies, ...

Spring 1690: Illegitimate and destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in her remote Baltic village. Sold by her family into household labour at the age of 15, Marta befriends a maid who kills herself after being repeatedly raped by their master. The next night, he comes for her. A world away, Russia’s new ruler, Peter the Great, passionate and iron-willed, has a vision for transforming the traditionalist Tsardom of Russia into a modern, Western empi...