The Red Scarf

The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel.. Davinsky Labor Camp Siberia 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna of a charmed childhood in Petrograd and her fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily.. After a perilous escape Sofia endures months of desolation and hardship. But clinging to a promise she made to Anna she subsists on the belief that someday she will track down Vasily. In a remote village she''s nursed back to health by a Gypsy family and there she finds more than refuge--she also finds Mikhail Pashin who her heart tells her is Vasily in disguise. He''s everything she has ever wanted--but he belongs to Anna.. After coming this far Sofia is tantalizingly close to freedom family--even a future. All that stands in her way is the secret past that could endanger everything she has come to hold dear!