Alice in Exile is Piers Paul Read's triumphant return to the fiction for which he is widely romantic, dramatic, and rich with detail. It features Alice Fry - an independent woman in a world ruled by men - and the two men who love her. It is 1913 when Alice meets Edward Cobb, the eligible son of a baronet. When Alice's father, a radical publisher, gets involved in a scandal, Edward breaks off their engagement, unaware that Alice is expecting his child. Desperate, she travels to Russia to serve as a governess for charming Baron Rettenberg, as the Russian Revolution and World War I rage on.