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The Ice Swan
Christian fiction
The Ice Swan
400 pages · First published 2021
Russian princess Svetlana Dalsky flees Petrograd in 1917 with her mother and sister as revolution destroys the aristocratic world they knew. Paris offers little safety: the city is strained by war, Bolshevik enemies remain determined to find them, and the family’s dwindling resources force Svetlana into increasingly desperate choices. Scottish surgeon Wynn MacCallan meets her while treating an injury and is drawn into the dangerous network of displaced Russian nobility surrounding her. A marriage of convenience offers protection and financial rescue, but continued pursuit turns the arrangement into a test of whether two guarded people can build real love while history is tearing their old lives apart.
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- 2 oz bourbon
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- Crushed ice
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- Garnish: Mint bouquet.
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