Some things are inevitable. She was one of them. In late-1800s Russia, November is living with her father on the edge of St. Petersburg. His line of work is less-than-legal, and when he needs to travel for a few weeks, he decides to hire someone to stay in his place with his daughter while he’s away. Twelve years ago, she saw a boy in the worst place imaginable. Now, he’s the one walking through the door of her house to stay with her for the next four weeks. November wants him to acknowledge that he remembers her, but Kostya knows he’s hardly the same person she saw all those years ago. Tensions rise as they get to know each other as adults, lines blurring and respectable boundaries disappearing. Ice skating outfits, books under the mattress, and shortened hemlines only make their prohibited relationship burn hotter. Their shared history is a tangled web of unspoken secrets and painful scars, yet together they might find the strength to confront it. Will the past bind them together or tear them apart? November is a historical forced proximity/emotional romance. It is book one in the Sons of Rurik duology. This book contains graphic violence, profanity, explicit sexual content, and other topics that may be triggering to some. A full content warning can be found in the front matter of the book.