Russian Saga Books

Russia, 1894. A nation on the brink of war and revolution... When Anna Cromb sailed into Port Arthur with her son Duncan in the summer of 1894 she anticipated a joyous family reunion with Prince Colin and Princess Jennie. But when Colin has died of illness before her arrival, there is no such reunion, meeting only Jennie and her many children, Peter, Georgei, Catherine, Sophie and young Patricia. Instead, she seems to come across the beginning of a war as the Japanese fight their way into the city. Meanwhile, the children are growing closer and Georgei takes Duncan into the city to lose his virginity. But the next day, Duncan and Patricia grow even closer... When the families decide to leave for Bolugayen, they await the English ship they plan to travel on. But when the Japanese warships take over Port Arthur, the ship never arrives and they are stuck. Is Port Arthur really impregnable? Jennie is killed by the Japanese as they race back to their home, Georgei dies in a battle at the brothel and Duncan is arrested when he shoots two men to save a prostitute. To save Duncan's life and free him, Anna agrees to consider the deaths an accident but Patricia cannot forgive him for her brother's death. They return to Russia, but Anna sends Duncan home to America to keep him from Patricia. She is outraged, and starts to hate Anna... Patricia gets involved with a revolutionary group, and is arrested, beaten and raped before escaping with the terrorists, a broken woman. When Duncan returns to Russia and learns of her disappearance, he is furious and sets out to find her and marry her. Can he find her in the depths of Serbia? And once he does, is he capable of keeping her safe and happy? Meanwhile, Anna has many choices of her own to make, especially when it looks like she is headed back to Port Arthur...

Russia, 1911. The country is still recovering from the disastrous effects of her defeat by Japan six years earlier when the assassination of Prime Minister Peter Stolypin plunges the country into chaos. Colin’s son Alexei is married to Princess Sonia with two children: Colin, named after his grandfather and Anna, named after the formidable Countess Anna. Meanwhile Duncan and Patricia are in England, far away from the troubles of Russia. But when they hear of the assassination, and Countess Anna is injured in the process, they hurry to her aid with their children Joseph and Jennie. The men investigating the crime are Feodor Klinski and Michaelin and they can’t help but remember Sonia’s past associations with a terrorist group… Sonia and Patricia set out with their children to St Petersburg and to the house of Nathalie and Dagmar, Colin’s original family where they meet Father Gregory Rasputin. When their husbands hear about this and knowing Rasputin’s notorious reputation, they follow them to the city. When they learn of the women’s relations with Rasputin, Alexei refuses to with Sonia and she is banned from Bolugayen. He quickly finds a new wife in Duncan’s niece, Priscilla. Meanwhile, Trotsky comes to see Sonia, saying he knows her from her days with Patricia in Siberia and Patricia is meeting with Lenin in London. Are they behind the revolution? Meanwhile, over the Bolugayevski family looms the sinister shadow of the Monk Rasputin. When war breaks out between Russia and Germany in August 1914, the old order is torn apart and the Revolution explodes. Alexei goes to fight, leaving pregnant Priscilla at Bolugayen. Then there are reports that Alexei is dead. Could they be true? And who is now the rightful Prince? Colin or his new-born son from Priscilla? Meanwhile the Tsar has abdicated and Sonia is arrested and raped by Klinski and Michaelin. Luckily she is saved...except it is by Rasputin… Although the Bolugayevskis fight for their existence with all of their courage and tenacity, they know their lives can never be the same again, especially when Sonia, Nathalie, Patricia and Priscilla all come together at Bolugayen and the attacks begin… ‘The Red Tide’ is the third gripping instalment of Christopher Nicole’s The Russian Saga series, depicting the overturn of Russian Society during the hundred years between 1853 and 1953.

At the end of World War II Josef Stalin was the undisputed master of Russia. Hated by many, feared by all, increasingly paranoid and megalomaniac, he took upon himself all the credit for the defeat of Nazi Germany, forcing his people to accept that the millions of Russians he had condemned to death or a lifetime of misery in the infamous gulags was a price worth paying for the security of the Soviet system. Now was the time for settling old scores, those real or imagined enemies who had survived both the war and the purges of the 1930s. And top of the list was the Bolugayevski family, exiled aristocrats who had long sought the downfall of the Bolshevik state. Stalin's solution was simple: this hateful brood must be eliminated. The task, naturally enough, was given to the head of his secret police, Lavrenty Beria. But unknown to the tyrant, Beria had plans of his own. He dreamed of bringing down his master and taking his place, and in Stalin's feud with the Bolugayevskis he saw his chance to bring his dream to fruition.