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Set in World War I Paris, the story follows Opaline Duplessi, a skilled employee of La Fantasie Russie whose daily work involves making trench watches for soldiers and creating mourning jewelry for families of the fallen. Opaline possesses a rare ability—lithomancy—that enables her to perceive the elemental currents in stones and hear communications from beyond the grave, giving voice to those who never reached their loved ones. When a message from a deceased soldier reaches her, she embarks on a perilous journey through the darkest corners of wartime Paris and crosses the English Channel, where the exiled Romanov dowager empress awaits answers about her family's fate.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Rose, M. J.
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