A THOUSAND WAYS HOME
is the true story of Princess Anna, granddaughter of the last king of Georgia, who was a Russian subject when she was brutally kidnapped, carried off on horseback with her young children, and held for ransom in a high mountain fortress in Dagestan. She soon learned that she was the last hope for her captor, the charismatic Muslim warlord Imam Shamil, to win back his own son from his archenemy, the Russian Tsar.
Locked up with the Imam’s three wives and extended family, and at the mercy of the supreme leader Shamil and his ruthless officers, Anna navigated the politics of the harem to find enough common ground among her enemies to achieve her family’s survival and freedom.
The story spills into world politics around the Crimean War and the routes to India, and is set in three spectacular worlds: rococo Romanov palaces, ancient Georgian vineyards, and a rugged blend of ethnicities high in the Caucasus mountains.
