When I finished The Russia Chronicles Book Four back at the end of 2021 I thought that I had crafted a great, at at that point in time, shocking and far out end to the series. At the end of book four, Pyotr, Katya and their band of homeless teens and later-on twentysomethings survive many trials and tribulations in order to — huge spoiler alert here — take out none other than Putin himself in a military backed coup.
Of course, I wrote all of this right before Russian invaded Ukraine only a couple of months later. The war was partially the inspiration for circling back to The Russia Chronicles, while working on the Poor Little Rich Kids series — which also came to include a character affected by the Ukraine war.
Book five in the Russia Chronicles series, Katya of Russia, envisions a possible peace deal — and even new alliance — between Russia and the European Union, in which the heroes from Russia Chronicles are newly fledged leaders, still finding their feet, and the others from my action adventure political thriller series, Europe’s Lost Children, find common ground, before the Ukraine war ever had to happen.
Its a tale of friendship and survival, too, where a new character, a teen living in Moscow’s city dump, is unwittingly tasked with taking Pyotr’s long lost daughter from Book One through many of Ukraine’s pre-existing conflict zones with Russia to the new Royal Family.
Although am an author of alternative history fiction, Book Six goes beyond that and delves into an alternate future where Tsarina Katya, President Pyotr and the gang have ruled a prosperous, peaceful Russia with a just but firm hand for years.
In it, a new cabal has risen to take them and Russia down with homegrown weapons of mass destruction. We see them as Slavic pagan leaders having raised ‘normal’ families and created a dynasty of their own, come face to face their legacy, as they are confronted with making the ultimate sacrifice for the same country that once scorned them as worse than society’s refuse.
I hope that in the end my characters, whom I have come to know over the years, all rule happily aver after.
The final installment of The Russia Chronicles Six: The Blazing Wheel is available here.
As part of the launch, Book One is Free on Amazon through August 2nd. The rest of the books in the series, including The Blazing Wheel will be $0.99 through August 4th.
You can check out the entire series at this page on Amazon here.
Andrew Anzur Clement, Author 