Red Corner

<p><strong>What if Russia had turned westward instead of east? One woman's defiance could change the fate of a nation.</strong></p><p>Red Corner is a gripping alternate history set in the fractured war-torn lands of medieval Rus. The year is 1470 and the powerful Grand Duchy of Muscovy threatens to dominate the region. But in the north the fiercely independent city-state of Novgorod refuses to bow.</p><p>Marta Boretskaya Novgorod's formidable mayor has just achieved the impossible-defeating Muscovite forces in battle. Yet Ivan III Grand Prince of Moscow will not forgive the insult. Facing annihilation Marta turns to the West forging a desperate alliance with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. A political marriage to Prince Olelkovich may be Novgorod's last hope to resist the rising tide of Eastern imperialism.</p><p>Meanwhile Ivan III schemes to marry Sophia Paleologos niece of the last Byzantine emperor to position Muscovy as the heir to Rome-and the shield of Christendom against the Ottoman advance.</p><p>Murder betrayal political intrigue and forbidden love unfold in this richly imagined reworking of Russian history-where every choice could change the future of Europe.</p><p><strong>Perfect for fans of Robert Harris Guy Gavriel Kay and alternate history epics Red Corner explores the road not taken in the making of Russia.</strong></p>