Lost Roses Author:Martha Hall Kelly It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with her close confidante, Sofya Strshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs, to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and Russia's i... more »mperial dynasty beings o fall, Elizaa escapes back to America, while Sofya and her family flee to their country estate. In need of domestic help, they hire the local fortune-teller's daughter, unknowingly bringing intense danger into their household.« less