NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER The million-copy bestsellerLilac Girlsintroduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. NowLost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Carolines mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.

It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often,many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia: the church with the interior covered in jeweled mosaics, the Rembrandts at the tsars Winter Palace, the famous ballet.

But when Austria declares war on Serbia and