The Tsar's Woman

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Summary: Love, Lust, and Power
Review: In The Tsar's Woman, The Tsar and his woman, Anastasia, are skillfully wrought as are the cruelty and intrigues of the Russian Court. The lusty characters, their loves and hates and thirst for power keep the excitement high from the initial opening drama to the surprising ending. Strong women who will stop at nothing to get what they want are pitted against a woman whose only weapon is love--to wield it, she must be willing to sacrifice truth, honor, and her very being. With clear and convincing detail, The Tsar's Woman transports readers to a Russia mostly known in history books. It reawakened gratitutde in this reader for the laws that protect us, although sometime imperfectly,against a leader who rules by impulse and is driven to national acts by private jealousies.