Angelina (A Novel World: Before)

The chilling tale of Angelina's ancestors, how she fights to escape her horrific childhood, and generations of oppression in a family of monsters that lure you, trap you, and then lock you inside their world.

They murder his mother. "You killed her!" Ten-year-old Valery's soul burns. Please come back! He craves her closeness, wants to protect her. "You let them shoot her!" He cries himself to sleep at night. You left me!

Tragically lost love twists lustful desires that Valery buries within, until his half-sister is born. Alena. She already resembles Mother.

Maksim, spawn of merciless Russian Gulag survivors and ruthless Belarusian boss of bosses, observes Valery's growing depravity. Yet the vulnerable, aging man fails to protect his young daughter from his son. The violent Valery's incestuous yearning incites abusive deeds, and Alena unwillingly gifts him a daughter.

Valery dreams of great adventures with Angelina. She will rule The Oasis with me! And Angelina will be all he ever needs, all he ever wished for.

But Angelina has plans of her own.