Her blood racing with desire, her heart pounding with the fulfillment of a thousand dreams, beautiful New York debutante Elsie Cooper pledged her life and love to the handsome Count Alexander of Imperial Russia. Now, across the ocean and the continents, a strange world reached out to her - one scarcely changed since the Middle Ages, one where horror and majesty mingled under the influence of the evil monk Rasputin.
Plunged into a royal circle of madness and treachery, Elsie soon knew that her love for Alexander had placed her very life in danger. And only by thwarting the awesome power of the Rasputin could she hope to escape!