'A masterful debut' - Ellen Alpsten, author of TsarinaIn a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land ... . Rosie's only inheritance from her reclusive mother is a not full of handwritten fairy tales.But another story is lurking between the lines. Desperate for answers to questions that have tormented her for years, Rosie travels to Moscow and uncovers a devastating family history spanning the 1917 Revolution, Stalin's bloody purgesand beyond.At the heart of those answers stands a young noblewoman, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions reverberate across the century .