Part of the Machine
POLITICAL INTRIGUE!
Buried beneath the ice of Europe's perennial winter¸ the Imperial Palace of Tsaritsin is a wonder of engineering and art¸ and a house divided.
In the upper floors¸ the aristocracy enjoy a fantasy-like life of parties and trysts¸ gossip and duels¸ trying desperately to forget about the horrors of the Catastrophe.
In the lower levels¸ the chemically-enhanced worker class toils at maintaining the machine going¸ growing food for the elites.
And the dread Secret Police sees that the two halves of this universe do not meet.
Looking into the sudden death of her chambermaid looked to
Capricious and spoiled like all aristocrats¸ countess Varvara Boleslavskaia thinks rules are made to be broken.
But her last indiscretion might break more than the rules¸ turning Varvara's world upside down before she gets killed.
And the Secret Police might be her only friend.