"Two strong women, generations apart, living parallel lives. When Marla Madison’s husband dies, she realizes her life has become very small. Her daughter is grown and Marla has spent the past two decades focused on his friends, his interests, and his home. Feeling lost, she throws herself into fixing up the one-hundred and fifty-year-old family lakeside manor. She soon discovers an old journal in a secret drawer and is instantly intrigued. The handwritten...

1917- Sofiya and her friend Alina are forced to flee Russia as Tsar Nicolas II abdicates, and the Bolsheviks take control of St. Petersburg. Their parents sent them to America, where Alina's distant cousin lives, but soon the girls learn they have traded one danger for another. They are forced to ear a living in the most terrible way, and once again, both girls flee for their lives in separate directions. Years later, trapped in a bitter marriage,...