The Crimson Palace - Large Print Author:Jacqueline Briskin It is on board ship that Stephen Strakhov meets the beautiful Marya Alexiev. On their journey across Europe, a lifetime's love is born. He is a revolutionary returning to Russia after exile. She is going to St. Petersburg to stay with her only surviving relative, Ivan Paskevitch - a man of violent passion which he only just controls. In his ... more »Crimson Palace, Marya is showered with lavish gifts until she comes to realize that she herself has become one of his valued treasures. Paskevitch force her into marriage against her will. Marya seems destined for a life without love or happiness. But as war and revolution destroys the world they all know, so the three protagonists are thrown together in a trial of love, hate, courage - and revenge!« less