The history books say I died. They don' t know the half of it. Anastasia ' Nastya' Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family' 's only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them . . . and he' 's hunted Romanov before. Nastya' 's only chances of survival are to either release the spell, and deal with the consequences, or enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn' t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya' 's never dabbled in magic before, but it doesn' t frighten her as much as her growing attraction for Zash. She likes him. She thinks he might even like her . . . That is, until she' 's on one side of a firing squad . . . and he' 's on the other.