The Pearl of Dubai

A ball is held at the Winter Palace. It's an evening of discovery, romance and secrets; an evening that will lead to one of the greatest cover-ups in history. A plan devised by the highly spirited fifteen-year-old Anastasia will have the palace in turmoil. As Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra keep their son's illness, hemophilia, secret from the people of Russia, Rasputin persuades them to guard Anastasia's plan even more tenaciously. The colorful agent of Faberge, female impersonator Terence Hodge, is persuaded by the handsome Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich, cousin to the Tsar, to be involved with the plan. Dimitri has no choice but to help after being discovered in the Paradise Maze along with Countess Basilevsky. Theirs is a privileged world and one of unabated excess. As love matures and the horror of the Revolution builds, the astonishing secrets of the Imperial family are finally revealed.