Let's Run Away Together, My Beloved

Ustinya, a serf girl and granddaughter of a healer, is far too smart for her station—though she’s not the first beauty. And even though her family is as poor as it can be, it is exactly Ustya whom Prokop Silin’s headman’s son is courting, and the fiancé’s brother pines for her. Or is she really a witch, as the envious claim? Either way, during bad harvests, hunger, and other troubles, blame falls on her. She would have been killed by an angry mob if the Silins hadn’t arrived in time. But now the girl faces punishment worse than death: the estate manager she wronged knows no mercy. Where to look for salvation? Who to beg? All hope rests on the young gentleman Nikita Zakatov—so Ustya and the loyal brothers go to him…