A biography of Catherine the Great, discussing her eighteen-year effort to form alliances and gain power, which culminated with her seizing the throne from her husband, Peter III.
Cassie, growing up in the 1960s a home her mother calls their Lucky Place, tries to reconcile her feelings for her charming, drunk of a father, and her stepfather Ellis, who she adores.
A biography of Catherine the Great, discussing her eighteen-year effort to form alliances and gain power, which culminated with her seizing the throne from her husband, Peter III.
