Summary

Do you ever take the time to stop and appreciate life? If not, this trilogy will help you realize just how fortune you are; especially in comparison with some from other lands. So, welcome to Russia at the end of the ninetieth where an adolescent Russian fourteen-year-old girl, Margo Ruseena discovers her first love. At first she has no way of knowing the real age or profession of the clever, handsome, and young KGB officer, Zahar Olovsky. And just before she can recognize the depth of her feelings for him, one mistake and a series of intriguing and surreal events steal her away.

Margo’s teenage curiosity turns her destiny into a cruel twist, putting her in a foreign country under a master’s control. What can she do to turn back the clock? Managing to survive isn’t easy, especially when Mother Nature steps in and quickly transform Margo, aka Bella, from a naïve teen to a shrewd and jaded young heroine, determined to alter the hand she has been dealt.

Nobody promises her a smooth comeback, and at first she doesn’t even recognize the homeland she remembers from her childhood. In one century Russia went through two wars on its own soil and now faces a second revolution, what luck? The once well-organized Soviet Union is falling down and as it crumbles creates many voids where civil control once reigned, and soon fills them with immeasurable corruption and impudence at all levels.

The country slides from communism into another “–ism”, steals peoples assets, and destroys their beliefs and consequently their lives. Bella has to draw on courage and skills she never knew she had, as she finds herself in one agonizing situation after another. Nonetheless, she does everything a young mother can humanly do to protect her children. Unimaginable pain, hardship, and abandonment drive Bella to carve out a new path in her life towards another challenging discovery. America!

She makes her heartbreaking decision to move from her homeland, and consequently again faces the biggest possible dilemma of one’s life – how to stay alive. Bella slowly realizes there is no place under the sun without problems, and the major differences between countries are really just how the government infrastructure is organized to help people to have a dissent life.

Caught up in the well-fare state, she starts questioning herself just how far the Government should go in its quest to support free-loaders, especially when it creates the generation’s relay. Bella also surprisingly discovers that the color of your skin is much more important in the United States than anything else; and, the word ‘racism’ fills the entire life all levels of society, stressfully dividing the New World. She also notices that the Government works very hard at balancing issues, but among many there is no appreciation for the opportunity of the decent quality of life it provides.