The Soviet Sisters

From bestselling author of The German Heiress, a gripping new historical novel filled with secrets, lies, and betrayals, following two spy sisters during the Cold War.

Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite the hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and betrayal, she must make desperate choices to survive—and to protect those she loves.

Nine years later, Marya is a prisoner in a Siberian work camp when Vera, a doyenne of the KGB, has cause to reopen her case file and investigate the facts behind her sister's conviction in Berlin all those years ago. As Vera retraces the steps that brought them both to that pivotal moment in 1947, she unravels unexpected discoveries that call into question the very history the Soviets were working hard to cover up.

Epic yet intimate, layered and complex, The Soviet Sisters is a gripping story of spies, blackmail, love, conflicting world views, and loyalty and betrayal between sisters.