One Stone Left Unturned

At midnight on July 16th, 1918 Tsar Nicholas Romanov and his family was murdered, thus signifying the end of the Russian empire. Historians believe that a peasant by the name of Rasputin was instrumental in the downfall of the dynasty. Because Nicholas thought that Rasputin could cure their son, Alexis, who was suffering from hemophilia, Rasputin was able to influence the Imperial Family.

But what if Rasputin’s power did not come from God as he claimed but from a simple jewel, a tri-colored fifteen caret tourmaline? And what if that very stone landed in the hands of a lonely teenager a century later?

My middle grade novel, One Stone Left Unturned (published by Wild Child Publishers) is told from two points of view, two teenage girls, living in different times and different places leading parallel lives with a parallel needs and desires. Told with historical accuracy and woven with elements of mystery and fantasy, the novel chronicled the lives of a doomed princess and a bullied teenager.