Tamar Anolic
Tamar’s novel Triumph of a Tsar is a work of alternate historical fiction, where the Russian Revolution is averted, and the hemophiliac Alexei, son of Nicholas II, comes to the throne. Her second novel, Through the Fire: An Alternate Life of Prince Konstantin of Russia is a novel in short stories that explores the life that Konstantin might have lived if the Russian Revolution had never happened. Her latest novel, The Imperial Spy, is an espionage thriller that follows the exploits of Prince Vsevolod Romanov as he spies for Russia against the Nazis in World War II.
Tamar’s first novel, The Last Battle, is contemporary fiction. It is about a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and her transition home after being injured during her last deployment. Tamar’s short stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Copperfield Review, The Sandy River Review, The Helix, Foliate Oak, and Evening Street Review. |
The Last Battle
Contemporary
Colonel Zahara “Zac” Madison is one of the Army’s top-ranking female officers in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. After three deployments and ten years of fighting, her luck runs out- her convoy is attacked, and she is injured by grenades and machine guns. After being forced into a disability retirement at 34 years old, Zac has no choice but to return to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where her grandfather left her property. Zac is now at a dead end in life: permanently injured, separated from the military, and too close to her small Arkansas hometown and her abusive, dysfunctional family. Zac’s battle scars have also produced post-traumatic stress disorder and uncontrollable anxiety. Soon, Zac finds that her mental stress is as bad as her physical wounds, and she is faced with the VA’s impenetrable bureaucracy at every turn. As her woes mount, Zac struggles to decide whether to plan her future- or whether to end her suffering once and for all. |
Triumph of a Tsar
Alternate Historical Fiction
Triumph of a Tsar is a work of alternate historical fiction in which the Russian Revolution is averted, and the hemophiliac Alexei, son of Tsar Nicholas II, comes to the throne. In August, 1920, sixteen-year-old Alexei is enjoying his birthday celebrations when Nicholas dies suddenly. Overnight, Alexei becomes tsar of an empire that covers one-sixth of the world’s landmass. The Great War is over, but Russia is still suffering from the devastation and poverty that it brought. Communists such as Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky view the political situation as ripe for revolution, but they realize that the popular Alexei stands in their way. To make matters worse, Alexei’s hemophilia, the disease that has threatened him his whole life, returns to haunt him. With his life in constant danger from internal threats, Alexei must also navigate the external threats of fascism and Adolph Hitler. Slowly, Hitler’s menace increases throughout Europe until he tries to kill Alexei himself. Only then does Alexei realize that another World War is the only way to stop his German enemy. |
Through the Fire: An Alternate Life of Prince Konstantin of Russia
Alternate Historical Fiction
Through the Fire: An Alternate Life of Prince Konstantin of Russia is a novel in short stories about Prince Konstantin Romanov, a war hero, cousin of Nicholas II and third son of Grand Duke Konstantin, the Russian Imperial Family’s famous poet. Through the Fire examines the life that Konstantin might have led if the Russian Revolution had been averted. It is set in the same alternate historical universe as Tamar’s previous novel, Triumph of a Tsar. |
The Imperial Spy
Alternate Historical Fiction
Vsevolod Ioannovich Romanov is a member of the Russian Imperial family, a Prince of the Imperial Blood….. and a spy against the Nazis. From Warsaw to Budapest, Rome to Tsaritsyn, Vsevolod assumes various disguises as he infiltrates the Nazi’s front lines. All the while, the intelligence he sends back to Russia frustrates the Nazi war machine at every turn. As he takes out multiple Nazi spy rings and kills many high-ranking officers of the German army, Vsevolod becomes the Nazis’ most wanted man. However, after several years of war in which his life is constantly in danger, Vsevolod slowly starts to crack under the pressure. As the war nears its end, Tsar Alexei II has one more mission for Vsevolod- being stationed in Berlin as the heir to the Russian throne tries to kill Hitler! Will Vsevolod be able to handle this last assignment? Or will he fall apart completely, endangering the lives of everyone around him? |
The Fourth Branch
Political Thriller
A divided population... A close, bitter election.... When neo-Nazi Leopold Stolze is elected President of the United States, he uses the power of his office to mold the country to his right-wing ideals. In this modern-day political thriller, Leopold’s campaign for the presidency against Democratic rival Kenneth Orion is bitter and divisive, and the election is one of the closest in American history. Leopold, however, sees his victory as a mandate to pursue his racist agenda. He also has a majority in Congress that rubber stamps his initiatives, from his Cabinet picks to legislation that excludes certain immigrants. To make matters worse, Leopold has a legion of vocal supporters who burst into violence across the country. But Leopold did not count on the rest of the American people rising up against him. As each stage of his agenda is promulgated, protestors spill into the streets across the country. Specific Americans also act in ways they never thought they would. In Washington, D.C., government attorney Rachel White joins Catholic priest Brian Esposito in sheltering those targeted by Leopold’s policies. When her religion disqualifies her from a job at the White House, Rachel retaliates against Leopold’s Chief of Staff. At the same time, the nation’s courts block Leopold’s most important legislation, and the House of Representative’s Democratic minority attempts to impeach him. When the two other branches of government fail to impede Leopold’s agenda, however, history teacher Thomas Chrichtas realizes that only the most radical of plans will stop Leopold in his tracks. |
The Fledgling's Inferno
YA Science Fiction
Eighteen-year-old Katie McMann enrolls in Norwich University's Corps of Cadets to continue a family tradition of service. When a routine cadet training exercise pushes her to the limit, her body suspends in free fall, exposing a rare genetic trait that allows Katie to fly. Her unique power lands her in the crosshairs of the Military Genetics Control Board, led by the secretive Colonel Henry Gibson and aided by the sinister Professor Tristan Hayes. Both men are working to engineer and control the gene. Katie is not in the plan. With the Military Genetics Control Board swiftly mobilizing under the guise of ordinary military school operations, Katie must learn to harness her power in time for the fight of her life. |