Alla Crone: 7 books

They were natural enemies but for one stolen moment, Svetlana Ozerova found refuge and love in the arms of her captor, the son of a legendary Chinese warlord. They dared to defy tradition and break every rule. Her rescue made them forbidden allies, which brought him a sentence of exile and disgrace....

The Japanese Occupation of Manchuria in the 1930s wrenched Nina from a life of luxury to poverty. Born in Harbin, a culturally Russian city peopled by stateless White Russians who had fled the Bolsheviks, she grew up under the threat of the Occupation and the yoke of dysfunctional familys emotional...

Jim Braddock, a successful surgeon practicing in San Francisco is married to Gretchen whom he met in Germany. It is 1982 and everything seems to be going smoothly in his life. Their son, Steve, is in his senior year of high school and is aiming to follow in his fathers footsteps. His wife is interested...

Three generations—they would know the splendors of Imperial Russia, the terror of exile, the Japanese occupation of China, the promise of America, and proof that sometimes a woman must love more than once to find true happiness. Winds Over Manchuria was awarded second place in Biennial Awards...

Set in China, the United States,. Germany, and USSR, this is the powerful story of Vickie, a woman of indomitable will, who is yearning above all for a life of freedom and security and who must endure an autocratic mother, an alcoholic sister, a faithless, weak husband, and a fatally flawed lover. Driven...

An epic novel of a woman caught in the turmoil and suffering of the Russian Revolution. With indomitable courage, she would survive the savage ordeal of the Siberian Ice March to find love and make a new life in a world utterly changed. East Lies the Sun was awarded the Gold Medal Award by the West Coast Review of Books.

An epic novel based on the failed Russian revolution attempted by noblemen in December 1825. The leaders were executed, the others exiled. Irina Dolvina follows her husband to Siberia, where she nurses him back to health. Enduring a primitive life through privation and hunger, Irina suffers a shocking betrayal, but her love survives and with it, the promise of a new beginning.