The Bronze Horseman: A Love Story (Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 1)

The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad. Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, he is drawn to Tatiana -- and she to him. But their impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose a dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protects -- a secret as devastating as the war itself.