A World of Secrets

Download or read book A World of Secrets written by Leonard H. Berman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A torrential rain beads down on a train carrying Jonah Chernov from the fortress prison in St. Petersburg to an uncertain future in Paris. A baby girl, born to his condemned twin sister, rests in the arms of Marta Birkov, a woman saved from the gallows to nurse the infant. Unknown to Jonah, his sister, barely alive, is being spirited in a coffin to Copenhagen guarded by the former head of the czars secret police. Ghosts from their pasts, and the secrets they must hide to survive, will haunt these characters as they move through the dramatic events of the Gilded Age.