The Far Side of Destiny Author:Dore Mullen His arms wrapped her in a breathless embrace, his eyes, dark azure fires, burned into her soul. And Daria knew he was her fate. In one passion-swept moment her past vanished. Gone was the terrible swift parting from her first sweet love. Now there was only this desperate journey across a revolution-ravaged tundra. And there was only Nicholas, th... more »is handsome worldly stranger they called the Man of Ice.
By train across Siberia, fleeing Cossack regiments and Bolshevik partisans...bu Chinese river steamer down the heat-wrapped, treacherous Sungari...by caravan into mist-veiled, mysterious Manchuria toward the dazzling and decadent city of Harbin.
Here, as the World War drew to a close and power-obsessed men plotted in smoky cages and exotic brothels to grasp the wealth of the East, Daria discovered a world in which the man she loved became an elegant stranger...and a forgotten love from the past returned to make her keep the tender promise of a frost-jeweled night so long ago.« less