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Heart of Iron, Paperback / softback Book

Heart of Iron Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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In a Russia where the Decembrists' rebellion was successful and theTrans-Siberian railroad was completed before 1854, Sasha Trubetskaya wantsnothing more than to have a decent debut ball in St.

Petersburg. But her aunt'sfeud with the emperor lands Sasha at university, where she becomes one of itsfirst female students — an experiment, she suspects, designed more toprove female unsuitability for such pursuits than offer them education.

Thepressure intensifies when Sasha's only friends — Chinese students —start disappearing, and she begins to realize that her new British companion,Jack, has bigger secrets than she can imagine!

Sasha and Jack find themselvestrying to stop a war brewing between the three empires.

The only place they canturn to for help is the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, newly founded by theTaiping rebels.

Pursued by the terrifying Dame Florence Nightingale of theBritish Secret Service, Sasha and Jack escape across Siberia via train to China. Sasha discovers that Jack is not quite the person she thought he was...but thenagain, neither is she.

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