The Russian Concubine

Living in exile with her mother in turbulent 1928 China, young Lydia Ivanova, who had fled Russia after the murder of her father by the Bolsheviks, falls in love with Chang An Lo, a young freedom fighter, but their love is threatened by the violence and danger that surrounds them and by the arrival of Chiang Kai Shek and his troops, whose goal is to destroy revolutionaries like Chang. A first novel. Original.