When celebrated author and lecturer Maria Kovalenko receives an invitation to speak at a charity function in Chicago from Leonid Kozlov, whom she hasn’t seen since he abandoned her 4 years ago, the past grips her. Leonid is now a wealthy man and a criminal boss. She shouldn’t go. She has to see him. Their love story began years ago in Ukraine under the Russian oppression and man-made famine.
The auction is not what it seems. Histories and long-held vengeance spill over from the past onto the present in a scalding manner. $2.99 on Kindle.