A megalomaniac to some, but still, a man of character and the great explorer who discovered the Northeast passage that links the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, Oloukine Tchernetsov, has gone missing during the 1882 expedition to the 87th parallel, deep in the uncharted waters of the North Pole. Nevertheless, back in Saint Petersburg, the strong-willed, 15-year-old aristocrat Sacha, still not coming to terms with her loss and determined not only to escape her preordained life, but to resume the...
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