For a thousand years every gulag had been the same.

The same drawn faces.
The same haunting blank stares.
The same cold-blooded, inhuman guards.
The same gruesome tools for inflicting pain.
It was in this godless place called a gulag that Carina Matthews now found herself.
Rebellious. Feisty. Intelligent. She would soon learn how much agony one can endure before folding.

A masterfully crafted story

based on the universal human conflict between the desire for order and the desire for freedom. Burgauer gives us a heroine whose concern is for the future, and a hero who is keenly aware of his own mortality.
Loren Logsdon . . . Editor, Eureka Literary Magazine