Sofya’s family must flee the city to the family’s country manor because a revolution is on the brink. She flees safely to the United States but wishes she could have brought Sofya and her family with her.

While Eliza’s in Russia, Austria declares war on Serbia, and Russia’s tsar is likely to fall. Eliza and Sofya’s close friendship is formed years prior while the pair lived in Paris. Petersburg, Russia with Sofya Streshnayva, a Romanov cousin. In 1914, Germany is gaining power and war is possibly on the horizon.

Lost Roses is Caroline’s mother’s story, along with two other women affected by World War I. In Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly gave us Caroline Ferriday as a real life heroine of her time during World War II. Lilac Girls is one of my favorite historical fiction reads, and HF is my favorite genre. Happy Monday! Welcome to my stop on the Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly blog tour sponsored by Suzy Approved Book Tours! Lost Roses will be published on Apvia Random House/Ballantine Books! Kelly’s debut, Lilac Girls, is on my favorites’ list and will forever be one of the best works of historical fiction I’ve read, so you can imagine I’ve been on pins and needles waiting for her newest work…and to find out it’s a prequel to Lilac Girls- ah-may-zing news! Please read on to see what I thought!

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