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Synopsis of Tatiana & Alexander and The Summer
Garden below....
both taken from Amazon.com
Synopsis of
Tatiana & Alexander
Tatiana and Alexander is a powerful story of grief and hope -- a passionate and epic love story from the Russian-born author of The Bronze Horseman. The world at war ... two people in love. Tatiana is eighteen years old and pregnant when she miraculously escapes war-torn Leningrad to the West, believing herself to be a widow. Her husband, Major Alexander Belov, a decorated hero of the Soviet Union, has been arrested by Stalin's infamous secret police and is awaiting imminent death as a traitor and a spy. Tatiana begins her new life in America. In wartime New York City she finds work, friends and a life beyond her dreams. However, her grief is inescapable and she keeps hearing Alexander calling out to her. Meanwhile, Alexander faces the greatest danger he's ever known. An American trapped in Russia since adolescence, he has been serving in the Red Army and posing as a Soviet citizen to protect himself. For him, Russia's war is not over, and both victory and defeat will mean certain death. As the Second World War moves into its spectacular close, Tatiana and Alexander are surrounded by the ghosts of their past and each other. They must struggle against destiny and despair as they find themselves in the fight of their lives. A master of the historical epic, Paullina Simons takes us on a journey across continents, time, and the entire breadth of human emotion, to create a heartrendingly beautiful love story that will live on long after the final page is turned.
Synopsis of
The Summer Garden
The climactic book in her epic trilogy that began with the international bestseller, the heartbreaking Bronze Horseman. Tatiana and Alexander have suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer and miraculously survived to be reunited in America, the land of their dreams. They have proved to each other that their love is greater than the vast evil of the world. They're young, they're beautiful, they have a son, Anthony, and - they're strangers. To find each other again, to get back to a place where the stars were perfect, they begin a journey from sea to sea. But the ghosts of yesterday are far from quiet. Alexander cannot put the nightmares of the war behind him.Tatiana finds herself reliving her own early teenage years when, still surrounded by her family in the happiness of her summers in Luga, she was confronted for the first time with evil. The struggle goes on. Anthony their son, once a beacon of hope in their escape from the Soviet Union, comes of age in the tumultuous sixties. Both to follow in Alexander's footsteps and to rebel against Alexander's wishes, Anthony enlists to serve in Vietnam. When Anthony goes missing in the mountainous jungle near Hue, Alexander and Tatiana finally confront everything they have kept hidden, everything they once were, everything they've become and everything they've passed on to their son. Anthony is trapped in a fierce war with their old relentless enemy and Tatiana and Alexander are unable to help him. Or are they? Epic in scope, masterfully told, this is another big, bold and beautiful novel from an author of unique power.
