The Secret City
by Hugh Walpole
512 pages~9 hrs
“When an empire falls, every secret becomes a weapon.”
Amidst the freezing shadows of Petrograd, an English circle and their Russian hosts are swept into a whirlwind of betrayal and shifting loyalties as the Revolution ignites. In a city where every street corner hides a secret, they must navigate the dangerous collapse of an empire before the chaos swallows them whole.
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