I had tons of research done before I started, and a subject for which I have a passion.
Actually, it's a passion that I thought had put itself on the back burner. The passion for Russia... her last royal family, and the dark days that led up to their murder. But the story, like all good stories doesn't end with their murder... there were more murders for years after that. All in the name of what? A revolution that was a failure. And what happened to the wealth that had once belonged to Russia? so much of it went missing, and the people suffered even more than they had before.
That aside, the story I'm telling is a fiction, an altered history... and the research I did cleared things up in my mind. Things I thought I knew when I was fourteen and became drawn into this violent part of the human history... things were not as I thought. People I blamed had fault, but were not alone in this... I hope I can tell the story from the eyes of one who lived it.