Secrets of Leningrad

From the Siege of Leningrad to the final years of the Soviet Union, one woman's hidden truths shape a lifetime of love, loyalty, and impossible choices.Leningrad, 1941. A starving city under siege. A young girl clings to the hope of survival, unaware that the end of the war will bring trials that echo across the rest of her life.For Nadya, the years that follow are marked by her devotion to medicine alongside her father, who returns broken from the gulag; her bond with Alexey, who becomes like a brother; and the two love affairs that shape her life-her complicated entanglement with Vasily, a KGB officer bound to the Soviet state, and her forbidden connection with Erich, an American whose love spans borders and decades.But Nadya's greatest secret-an unexpected pregnancy and the hidden truth of her son's American father-carries consequences that reach far beyond her own life.