Kindle Copy for Review from Net Galley and St. Martin's Press.

I received a free, advance copy of this book and this is my unbiased and voluntary review.

A fascinating fantasy read about Catherine the first of Russia. How a peasant girl who grew up to become the second wife of Peter the Great. At a time of violence and cruelness in the streets, how she survived and became tsarina.

How in the end she might be responsible for her husband death and affected the course of Russia’s royal history. As he husband lay dying, she ignored his wish to see someone who might have been made the next heir instead.