Beautiful Evil Winter

Can a novel about an American couple's quest to adopt a Russian baby be called a Multi-Award-Winning Suspense Thriller? Yes. ...The book is difficult to put down, enticing you to read a few more chapters before bed. In the end, the book leaves the reader satisfied, but the story never fully leaves your mind." The US Review of Books. I couldn't stop reading this book....I had to know what was happening as if I were right there with them!!!! 5 * review by Ellen M. In the late 1990s, a time in Moscow reminiscent of the unforgiving gun-slinging days of the frontier west, mild-mannered Ethan and hot-blooded Sophia board a Russian bound plane. Armed only with a homespun plan, the desperate American couple hopes to to adopt a baby boy. What can go wrong? Maybe, an innocent ill-fated encounter with the Mafia or maybe, being marked as a target for mob revenge. Perhaps, having to rely on a first-time adoption coordinator to complete the process and shelter them from harm. Honestly, what won’t go wrong? Crippled by circumstances - confined and monitored in a Moscow apartment, no language skills, no cell phone, no clue, no landline, no gun, no nearby family and a baby to protect, they have to find a way to out. Everything and anything can go wrong. How can they prevail? For mature audiences only. DLSV. Explicit sexual violence.