We are so pleased to finally share this gorgeous and much awaited cover for Queen of Someday by Sherry D. Ficklin.
Queen of Someday (Stolen Empire Book 1)
Release Day: October 7,
2014
Genre- YA Historical Fiction
Before she
can become the greatest empress in history, fifteen-year-old Sophia will have
to survive her social-climbing mother’s quest to put her on the throne of
Russia—at any cost.
Imperial Court holds dangers like nothing Sophie has ever
faced before. In the heart of St. Petersburg, surviving means navigating the
political, romantic, and religious demands of the bitter Empress Elizabeth and
her handsome, but sadistic nephew, Peter. Determined to save her impoverished
family—and herself—Sophie vows to do whatever is necessary to thrive in her new
surroundings. But an attempt on her life and an unexpected attraction threatens
to derail her plans.
Alone in a new and dangerous world, learning who to trust
and who to charm may mean the difference between becoming queen and being sent
home in shame to marry her lecherous uncle. With traitors and murderers lurking
around every corner, her very life hangs in the balance. Betrothed to one man
but falling in love with another, Sophie will need to decide how much she’s
willing to sacrifice in order to become the empress she is destined to be.
In a battle for the soul of a nation, will love or destiny
reign supreme?
Sherry D. Ficklin is a full time writer
from Colorado where she lives with her husband, four kids, two dogs, and a
fluctuating number of chickens and house guests. A former military brat, she
loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local
bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of
books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like
the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.
She is the
author of The Gods of Fate Trilogy now available from Dragonfly Publishing. Her
previously self-published novel After Burn: Military Brats has been acquired by
Harlequin and will be released in 2014 with a second book in that series to
follow. Her YA steampunk novel, EXTRACTED: The Lost Imperials book 1,
co-written with Tyler H. Jolley is now available everywhere books are sold and
her newest YA novel, Losing Logan, is now available from Clean Teen
Publishing.
A Note From The Author:
The true
story of Catherine the Great is one fraught with betrayal, intrigue, and
romance. While a good deal of my story is drawn from actual people and events,
I have been very liberal in the rearrangement of dates, events, and places.
Whenever possible I took my cues from her own words, intermixing my own
thoughts and ideas. My thought upon the creation of the book was simple. I
looked at the woman she was when she claimed the crown and then wondered, how
did an innocent girl from Germany become such a force of nature? Most people
aren’t born cold or ambitious, but have circumstances that forge them into
those people. And that was the story I wanted to tell in this book. I wanted to
see the events in her early life that would have changed her into the person
she became, and not knowing the truth of that story, I simply made something
up. That is what we, as writers, do best.
If you are curious about the real history behind Catherine,
I suggest heading to your local library and doing a bit of research. This is
not meant to be a historically accurate representation, but a flight of fancy,
one that I hope you, dear reader, will enjoy as much as I have.
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