Tatiana and Alexander: A Novel (Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 2)

[Read by James Langton] Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander -- a novel of the enduring power of love and commitment against the devastating forces of war and the equally dangerous forces of keeping the peace. Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately. Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution, and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. Yet Alexander is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again. A sweeping, intensely compelling romantic historical saga, Tatiana and Alexander is a Russian Thorn Birds and truly unforgettable.