The Antique Bracelet

This is a free story (it is Book 1 in the “ ” series). _______________________ A silver bracelet. A vanished dancer. A Cold War secret that refuses to stay buried. American art restorer Alyssa Cole came to Moscow to escape her grief, not to fall into a... More

This is a free story (it is Book 1 in the “ ” series). _______________________ A silver bracelet. A vanished dancer. A Cold War secret that refuses to stay buried. American art restorer Alyssa Cole came to Moscow to escape her grief, not to fall into a mystery. But when a chance purchase at a flea market leaves her holding an antique silver bracelet, she’s plunged into a world she never knew existed. The bracelet is warm to the touch. It smells of fresh rye bread and violets. And it whispers—with the voice of a ballerina who disappeared in 1947 Historian Nikolai Volkov doesn’t believe in haunted jewelry. He deals in facts, archives, and dry sarcasm—not ghost stories. But the strange symbol on the bracelet matches nothing in any Soviet record, and the deeper he digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. The bracelet belonged to a dancer named Katya, a prisoner of the KGB’s secret “Project Echo.” And someone is still hunting for it. Now Alyssa and Nikolai are racing across Russia, Less