<p><b>''Immersive, involving, suspenseful, and intriguing, with a main character you''ll love'' LEE CHILD</b><br><br><b><i>No.1 New York Times </i>and <i>USA TODAY</i> bestselling author Charlaine Harris returns to her alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this fourth installment of the Gunnie Rose series.</b><br><br>Felicia, Lizbeth Rose''s half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego - capital of the Holy Russian Empire - is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the haemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him with the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like a nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she''s seen as a charity case with no magical ability.<br><br>But when Felicia is snatched outside the school, the facts of her heritage begin to surface. Felicia turns out to be far m