Autumn Will Not Come to Us

Ksenia Shelkov is a writer from Saint Petersburg. She is known for her books in the fantasy genre, most often Slavic or based on the realities of 18th and 19th-century Russia. We present in audiobook format the novel “Autumn Won’t Come to Us” — the first book in the “Seasons” cycle, where fantasy, romance, and the color of pre-revolutionary Russia are blended.

Anna was born into a merchant family. Her mother disappeared without a trace on the day of her birth, and this sad circumstance has worried the heroine all her life. Anna’s father remarried, but relations with her stepmother don’t work out. A count named Levashov proposed to Anna, and her father considered it a great honor—yet what were the count’s true intentions? Perhaps a threat is looming over the heroine. A sense of danger is made worse by secrets from the past and a strange illness that catches up with Anna year after year in May.

Unexpectedly, the prince Vseslav of Polotsk appears on the horizon and helps Anna. But it seems that both the prince and the heroine’s missing mother have extraordinary abilities, which is why they don’t live among ordinary people. The details are in the audiobook.