Dance of Ashes

<p><strong>Paris 1932.</strong><br>Every morning before dawn ballerina <strong>Lidia Volkova</strong> ties her ribbons and steps onto the cold stage of the Paris Opera.<br>Her dance is her prayer - a fragile balance between love and duty between the brilliance of the spotlight and the silence that follows.</p><p>Her sister <strong>Anna</strong> once the company's brightest star now hides behind discipline and regret.<br>But when a mysterious note surfaces - <em>The old ornaments remember everything</em> - the sisters are forced to face a buried past: a vanished dancer from 1897 and a diadem said to carry both genius and ruin.</p><p>As the echoes of old performances blend with the pulse of the present Lidia finds herself dancing not only for the audience but for the truth.<br>In a city still trembling after the Great War art becomes rebellion and beauty becomes a secret language of survival.</p><p><strong>Dance of Ashes</strong> is a lyrical atmospheric novel that captures the elegance and melancholy of 1930s Paris - a story about two sisters the weight of memory and the invisible ties between art and sacrifice.</p>