title: Ice Road: A Novel
author:  Gillian Slovo 
description: South African novelist and playwright Slovo--<i>Red Dust</i> (2001)--delivers a chilling historical novel about a group of Soviets living in Leningrad between the world wars. The tale opens with the observations of Irina Davydovna, a simple cleaning woman who survived the sinking of the<i> Chelyuskin</i> (an actual research ship that became ice-bound on its way to the Arctic in 1933). Irina delivers devastating descriptions of the Soviet Union--Stalin's military purges, the murder of Leningrad Chief Sergei Mironovich Kirov, the desperation of citizens in the clutches of an oppressive political regime. The novel loses steam when it switches to third-person narrative, highlighting the precarious personalities that populate Irina's life. Among them: her employer Boris Alexsandrovich, a government official torn between loyalty to his family and loyalty to the state; moody intellectual Anton Antonovich; and a fearless orphan named Anya. While Slovo's narrative may be uneven, her prose is luminous, evoking a landscape as cold and deadly as an ice pick to the heart. <i>Allison Block</i><br><i>Copyright &#169; American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text: She’s an investment banker.
  He’s an outlaw biker.
  A little bit of heaven is about to meet a whole lot of hell.
  Morgan Powell was raised to be perfect, to set the example for her sisters to follow. Her life is
  dedicated to making something of her career so she wouldn’t know what to do with a man even if you
  gave her an instruction manual.
  Brett ‘Ice’ Grady spends his days trying to keep up with his teenage daughter and his nights
  consumed in Regulators’ MC business. He has no time for anything more than a casual hookup.
  Two worlds collide when the dangers of his life crash into the calm of hers.
  Can she go beyond her own boundaries and chip her way through to the man to be known as cold
  as ice?
  
  Ice
  Regulators MC Series #1
  By Chelsea Camaron & Jessie Lane
  Copyright © 2014 by Chelsea Camaron & Jessie Lane
  Published by Whiskey Girls Publishing
  All rights reserved.
   
  Edited by C&D Editing & Asli Fratarcangeli
  Cover Design by Mina Carter
  Cover Images by: © Furious Fotog | Golden Czermak
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