The Gift Annie Atkins Monica will be the biggest

Monica will be the biggest literary event of 2023

with mounting tension and mistrust that reaches a boiling point

" — The Walters Art Museum

Thea follows her father down a dark and bloody path

The Gift Annie Atkins Monica will be the biggestBy Zoe Maeve. Published by Conundrum Press. Softcover, 96 pages, Monochrome, 2021 The Shining meets Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette in this gripping debut from an award winning talent. The Gift opens on the snow blanketed grounds of the Alexander Palace in Western Russia where a moth has come to attend the birth of the fourth Romanov princess, Anastasia. She and her siblings grow up in a gilded world, isolated from the society beyond the palace