02643cam a2200397 4500 888837886 TxAuBib 20230710120000.0 230125s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022039241 9780063246492 paperback 006324649X paperback TxAuBib Saab, Gabriella. Daughters of victory [PB] : a novel / Gabriella Saab. New York : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2023. 484, 16 pages ; 21 cm. Russia 1917: Beautiful, educated Svetlana Petrova defied her stifling aristocratic family to join a revolution promising freedom. Now, released after years of imprisonment, she discovers her socialist party vying for power against the dictatorial Bolsheviks and her beloved uncle, a champion of her cause, was murdered by a mysterious assassin named Orlova. Her signature? Blinding her victims before she kills them. Svetlana resolves to avenge his death by destroying this vicious opponent, even as she longs to reunite with the daughter she has not seen in years. USSR 1941: Now living in obscurity in a remote village, Svetlana opens her home to Mila Rozovskaya, the eighteen-year-old granddaughter from Leningrad she has never met. She hopes to protect Mila from the oncoming Nazi invasion, but when the enemy occupies the village, Svetlana sees the young woman fall under the spell of the resistance—echoing her once-passionate idealism. As Mila takes up her fight, dangerous secrets and old enemies soon threaten all Svetlana holds dear. To protect her family, she must confront her long-buried past—yet if the truth emerges victorious, it holds the power to save or shatter them. A risk Svetlana has no choice but to take. 20230710. Aristocracy (Social class) Russia Fiction. Women revolutionaries Fiction. Women Russia Fiction. Political prisoners Russia Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Grandparent and child Fiction. Assassins Fiction. Revenge Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Women Russia Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Russia (Federation) Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Russia (Federation) Fiction. Russia History 20th century Fiction. Soviet Union Fiction. Political fiction. Historical fiction.