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Age: 16 |
Sixteen going on
twenty-one. Fresh from her first spring in Paris, Tatiana is now
returning to Russia escorted by her grandfather, the stern and
forbidding Count Vassili Alexandrovich Obolensky. On the train
she spies a familiar face—Alexei Dolnikov, the son of a
neighboring aristocratic family outside Odessa, for whom she
still cherishes a childhood crush.
Paris showed
Tatiana new freedom and new ideas, and she is eager to experience
everything life has to offer. But under her new veneer of
sophistication, she is still an innocent and romantic young girl,
unprepared to confront a terrifying and implacable evil…