I believe this is the first Book Blip I've done for a story that's part of a trilogy.
The Katerina Trilogy, Vol. I: The Gathering Storm
Delacorte, January 10, 2012
A short summary of the book:
St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888. As she attends a whirl of glittering balls, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret: she can raise the dead. Katerina considers her talent a curse, not a gift. But when she uses her special skill to protect a member of the Imperial Family, she finds herself caught in a web of intrigue.
An evil presence is growing within Europe's royal bloodlines—and those aligned with the darkness threaten to topple the tsar. Suddenly Katerina's strength as a necromancer attracts attention from unwelcome sources . . . including two young men—George Alexandrovich, the tsar's standoffish middle son, and the dashing Prince Danilo, heir to the throne of Montenegro, to whom Katerina feels inexplicably drawn.
The time has come for Katerina to embrace her power, but which side will she choose—and to whom will she give her heart?
What inspired you to write the story?
My great-grandparents on my mother's side owned a bakery in Zhitomir, Ukraine. They came to America in 1912, before the Russian revolution. I've always been interested in Russian history, starting with the stories about the bakery and about the family samovar, and I fell in love with the late Imperial period--the years of Faberge and Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy--as well as the old Russian fairy tales. I wondered what life in the late 19th century would have been like if tsars had possessed magical powers like the tsars of the old legends.
Short bio:
By day, Robin is a mild-mannered writer of fantasy and paranormal fiction for young adults. By night, she is a pediatric nurse. Robin lives on the Gulf Coast with her husband, one soon-to-be teenager, and two slobbery Mastiffs. She likes playing video games and watching Jane Austen movies. (Alas, if only there were a Jane Austen video game…) THE GATHERING STORM is her first novel.
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