The American Queen by Vanessa Miller Instead of the elderly invalids

Instead of the elderly invalids they expect

But as she disappears into her writing

and the Bolsheviks will not rest until they have erased every Russian aristocrat from memory

A century later

Louella learned to feel one hate

The American Queen by Vanessa Miller Instead of the elderly invalidsIn 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty four years shes been enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one hate. Hate for the man who sold her mother. Hate for the overseer who left her daddy to hang from a noose. Hate so powerful theres no room in her heart for love, not even for the honorable Reverend William, whom she likes and respects enough to marry. But when William finally listens to