Book description
In the stormy turmoil of old Sarajevo, their passionate story began . .
. In Belgrade, in the balmy spring of 1914, neither of the royally
related Karageorgevich sisters had the slightest presentiment of
disaster. Seventeen-year-old Natalie was enjoying the danger and secrecy
of friendship with young nationalists, eager to free their lands from
Habsburg domination. Katerina, her less volatile sister, was deeply and
secretly in love with Julian Fielding, a young English diplomat. Then,
when accompanying their father on an official visit to Sarajevo, Natalie
inadvertently plunged their lives into chaos as she found herself caught
up in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the
Austrian Empire. As the Austrians demanded her extradition Natalie had
no choice but to flee the homeland she so passionately loved. She chose
to leave in a manner that was to prove catastrophic - as the bride of
Julian Fielding, the man her sister loved.
