Song Of The Storyteller (Songs Of Steppe & Forest)

Lyuba Koshkina has long known that her father, an ambitious and unscrupulous nobleman, will stop at nothing to see her wed the grand prince-soon to be crowned as Russia's first tsar, Ivan the Terrible. A few months after her sixteenth birthday, the call for the tsar's bride show goes out. But Lyuba has goals of her own, and they do not include a royal marriage. She wants to record the tales that fill her head from morning to night, including the adventures of her own family. One day, she catches a handsome stranger reading her work and realizes that here stands the man she has loved since childhood-and that neither her father nor the Church will permit them to wed. Timur Alexeevich has spent years away from home, learning from his uncles how to rule a Tatar horde. An unexpected summons brings him back to Moscow and the girl he once thought of as a little sister, now a scintillating, learned, and self-assured beauty destined-at least according to her father-to become Russia's first tsaritsa. Even the grandson of a khan cannot compete with so exalted a future. All seems lost, until Lyuba discovers that a storyteller has the power to weave her own future from the twists of fate.

• | Author: C. P. Lesley
• | Publisher: Five Directions Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 30, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 318 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1947044338
• | ISBN-13: 9781947044333