3rd Book In Petrovo Series

The Yellow Ticket
Due out July 16



If you read the first book in my Petrovo series, Who Is to Blame?, you might remember Anna, the teenage girl who was banished from the village.  In The Yellow Ticket, the homesick 16-year-old finds work as a servant in Moscow.  Her employer, however, sees fit to use her as a concubine. 

At least until his wife catches him red-handed.

Anna is kicked onto Moscow’s frozen streets, streets filled with forlorn, destitute women just like herself.  And the same as them, she has no options except to enter a house of prostitution – a veneer of magenta silk, flaking gold leaf, and faux diamonds. 

Her flaxen hair and heart-shaped mouth help her build a sizable clientele, but Anna knows that she (like all prostitutes) faces the age-old perils of disease, pregnancy, and beatings.  Anna knows she needs to escape before she loses her life or, perhaps worse, becomes a used-up, painted whore living in the gutter with the cockroaches and worms. 

How will she gain the skills necessary to secure respectable employment?  Thanks her indomitable spirit she embarks on a most unusual path to a new life.

Pathos & Poignancy Tempered By Humor