It is the beginning of 1918, the last year of the greatest war in human history, to date. All the belligerents stagger on their feet. Starvation is an ever present reality, while disease waits in the wings. In Russia, no longer a belligerent but, instead, rapidly descending into civil war and chaos, a lone family—Father, Mother, four beautiful young girls, and a brave but sickly boy—await their own fate, shivering and hungry in the dark, hoping and praying for salvation. Their relatives in England have turned their backs. The guards set over them do little but torment them. They look Heavenward, but God doesn't answer. They know they're a threat to the new regime, a threat that will, in time, be eliminated.
But even the strongest fabric has flaws. An escaped prisoner of war, caught, injured, and punished, but still highly capable, might be one. An airship, returned and at loose ends after a failed mission to Africa might be another. A German general, taking a wrong turn on his nightly walk and suddenly coming face to face with the reality of the monster rising in the east, would be a third.
Follow, then, as the general gives the orders, the prisoner of war raises the men from among his fellows, and the airship launches itself forward, to contest fate, to tear the fabric of time, and to effect The Romanov Rescue.
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Kacey Ezell is an active duty USAF helicopter pilot. When not teaching young pilots to beat the air into submission, she writes sci-fi/fantasy/alt history. She was a Dragon Award finalist in 2018 and 2019 for her novels Minds of Men and The Worlds Asunder, and her stories have twice been featured in Baen Books’ Year’s Best Mil/Adventure SF compilation. In 2018, her story “Family Over Blood” won the 2018 Baen Reader’s Choice Award. She has books published by Baen, Chris Kennedy Publishing, and Blackstone Publishing. You can find out more and join her mailing list at www.KaceyEzell.net.
Tom Kratman is the author of Caliphate, A State of Disobedience, A Desert Called Peace, and its sequel Carnifex, as well as three collaborations with John Ringo in the Posleen War series, Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes and The Tuloriad. In 1974 , he became a political refugee and defector from the People’s Republic of Massachusetts)by virtue of joining the Regular Army. He stayed an army infantryman most of his adult life, returning as an unofficial dissident while attending after his first hitch. He has practiced law in the southwest.