When Princess Theraisa Von Steiner discovers she is with child soon after the tragic death of her beloved David Ritter, there is no match for the trepidation that consumes her soul. Her Aunt Louisa advises her to travel to the Volga to have the child in secret. Little did they know that the journey would be so perilous and that the child would be the one responsible for bringing the Steiner bloodline to America at the turn of the century. Based on...

The third novel in a trilogy, Flesh on the Bone picks up the story of the married children of the first two books. Jake and Raisa Kessel emigrated with their respective parents as seven and eight-year-old children in 1907. Their immigrant parents came to this country with only the "flesh on their bones." They struggled to make their own way even with all America had to offer. Now, Jake and Raisa are hungry for new horizons and head east to Michigan...