THE BAKU INHERITANCE

Silver medal winner for Adventure Historical Fiction 2024 from Historical Novel Society

The exotic world of nineteenth century Baku is the backdrop to this captivating tale of betrayal and loss, love and revenge, adventure, daring and triumph.

An oilfield in Baku hides a secret. A deadly promise must be honoured…

BAKU, 1890. Anton Sabroski has come home. But the once-beautiful mansion on the shores of the Caspian Sea is silent and dark, a decaying relic in a bustling city. Upstairs, his father lies dying, his business empire in ruins, his only bequests to his son a jewelled Faberge egg containing a coded message and the care of Klara, a mysterious hostile girl.

Unable to accept that his father was responsible for the loss of his family’s fortunes, Anton begins to investigate. But Baku is a city of many faces and even old friends are not what they seem. And what of Klara - infuriating, intriguing Klara - who is at home in a back street opium den as she is in a grand drawing room?

But when Anton is attacked by oil spies, he realises that if he’s to survive he will have to place his trust in his enigmatic new houseguest.