Cruel Compassion

Cruel Compassion is a dystopian romance. She wasn’t supposed to open the door... But now, she can’t unsee it. Yulia Bituskaya knows that in New Russia, disloyalty is punishable by death. It’s the reason she always says yes. Yes, to every assignment the government gives her. Yes, to an arranged engagement with Dimitri for political power. Yes, to her unfeeling father, the nation’s supreme sovereign. But when she uncovers the government’s involvement with organized crime, she must choose: Stay silent and safe, or say yes to her growing treason and destroy the very people that have kept her protected. Yulia needs allies if she is going to step into a world she despises and destroy it. But with constant government surveillance, someone is always watching. After years of shooting dissenters in Red Square, the government has effectively squeezed the will to fight out of its people. Allies are hard to come by. Dimitri is offering help. But he’s too young to hold so much power and still have c