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It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva’s ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion falling into disrepair and decay. The remaining members of their family are ordered to move into the cramped attic, while the officials take over an entire wing of grand rooms downstairs. The sisters understand it is the way of things and know they must forget their noble upbringing to make their way in this new Soviet Russia. But the house begins to whisper of a traumatic past not as dead as they thought.
Eager to escape it and their unwelcome new landlords, Irina and Lili find jobs with the recently arrived American Relief Administration, meant to ease the post-revolutionary famine in Russia. For the sisters, the ARA provides much-needed food and employment, as well as a chance for sensible Irina to help those less fortunate and artistic Lili to express herself for a good cause. It might just lead them to love, too.
But at home, the spirits of their deceased family awaken, desperate to impart what really happened to them during the Revolution. Soon one of the officials living in the house is found dead. Was his death caused by something supernatural, or by someone all too human? And are Irina and Lili and their family next? Only unearthing the frightening secrets of Moscow House will reveal all. But this means the sisters must dig deep into a past no one in Russia except the dead are allowed to remember.
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- ISBN: 9780593547021
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- ISBN: 9780593547021
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April 1, 2024
Following her LJ Best Booked fantasy The Witch and the Tsar, Gilmore writes a gothic horror set in the early 20th century in post-revolutionary Russia. Bolshevik officials have taken over Irina and Lili's family home, a decaying mansion in Moscow--and the spirits of their deceased family members have awakened, wanting to share what really happened to them. Prepub Alert.
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July 29, 2024
Inspired by the true histories of the aristocratic Sheremetev and Golitsyn families in early 20th-century Russia, the tedious sophomore novel from Gilmore (The Witch and the Tsar) follows Countess Irina Goliteva and her younger sister Countess Lili Goliteva as they struggle to survive after their family has been impoverished by WWI and declared enemies of the people following the Russian Revolution. When the Soviet government requisitions their house, forcing the family into the attic, the remaining Golitevas grow desperate. Irina and Lili sell off the family treasures and risk the attention of the secret police by taking jobs with the American Relief Administration, which has come to help with the famine of August 1921. Meanwhile, their aunt Marie, the Goldteva matriarch and Irina and Lili’s adoptive mother, decides to use the family treasures to hold elaborate dinners and grand balls—not just for Irina, Lili, and the few other surviving family members but all the dead ones who have come back as ghosts. The fantastical Russian setting may appeal to Gilmore’s die-hard fans, but the plot moves at a glacial pace with little intrigue and fewer genuine scares to sustain it. This disappoints. Agent: Jennifer Weltz, Jean V. Naggar.
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