Rasputin: The Fall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor Entangled Raina can't wait to be

Raina can't wait to be a big sister

and anticipation is at a fever pitch

plenty of red herrings and clues

heartbreaking novel that captures both the exquisite pain of loss and the stunning power of hope

Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe)

Rasputin: The Fall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor Entangled Raina can't wait to beFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history's most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial household, contributed to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world When Russia's Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified her, and for the rest of her days she 'lived