The Concubine’s Secret

Name: The Concubine’s Secret
Rating: 4.3 (1373 reviews)

by Kate Furnivall Book 3 in the Russian Concubine series.

First published 2009

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China, 1929. Lydia Ivanova learns that the father she believed dead may instead be a prisoner in Stalin's Soviet Union. Leaving Chang An Lo behind, she travels towards Russia with her half-brother Alexei in search of the man whose disappearance has shaped both their lives. The journey takes her from the instability of revolutionary China into a Soviet state governed by suspicion, surveillance and fear.

When Alexei disappears, Lydia is left exposed and nearly penniless in a country she barely knows. Her search brings her close to officials connected with the prison system while Chang, now committed to the Communist struggle in China, races to reach her with information of his own. The sequel expands the family's story across China and Russia, turning Lydia's search for her father into a test of love, identity and survival under two revolutionary regimes.