Johnathan Ness
ASIN: B00BJ979AU
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 360
Do you love historical fiction? Soul-crushing despair battling against love and hope? This book is for you!For the woman he loves, he’ll do anything…including destroying his soul. Aleksei is brilliant and motivated, but also the son of serfs in post-Napoleonic Russia. Though he has high aspirations, he works in a bar, trying to save up enough money to attend college.Then one day, he meets two men who have just been cheated by a pair of young nobles. Aleksei hears them complaining about how the nobility have cheated them before and offers to carry out these men's vendettas if they will pay for him to go to college. For agreeing to ten names, he gets his scholarship and becomes a successful lawyer.He also falls in love with his best friend's sister, Katherina. He wants to marry her, but he does not feel he is worthy to even proclaim his love for her until he is through with the list.As he ...