The Tartar Steppe GONCHAROV at least until she can

at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing

The Alexandrian Society

a magazine editor who introduces her to the thrilling

confused and surrounded by strangers

But as her desire grows so too does her discontentment - with the role society has forced her to play and with the bonds that hold her fast - and her world begins to unravel with devastating consequences

The Tartar Steppe GONCHAROV at least until she canIdealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by veteran soldiers who have grown old without seeing a trace of the enemy. As his length of service stretches from months into years, he continues to wait patiently for the enemy to advance across the desert,