The Snow Queen’s Spring

Marika Snegova, president of a major Moscow logistics firm, is the Snow Queen of the Kremlin’s shadow economy. An architect of high-stakes evasion, she manages the clandestine supply lines that keep Russia’s sanctioned aviation industry airborne. But Marika has a terrible secret, one that could cost her everything. When Russia invaded Ukraine, her estranged daughter, Alisa, abandoned her graduate studies at Harvard and went to Kyiv to join the defense effort. In a Moscow where disloyal elites have an unsettling habit of falling from windows, Alisa’s choice is enough to become a death sentence. Then Alisa stops answering messages, and Marika is driven half-mad with fear. Blacklisted by her former Ukrainian associates and monitored by the FSB, she is forced to reach across the front lines to the only man she might still be able to trust: Leo Bruneval. An American engineer now designing drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Leo was once Marika’s first love. Their passionate affair in 1980s Moscow was crushed by the Soviet state. Forty years later, they find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict far more brutal than the Cold War of their youth. COMING SOON