The Soldier's Notebook (Echoes of the Kremlin - Book 2)

A notebook stained with blood. A soldier who refused to die. A secret that could shatter the Iron Curtain all over again.

Two weeks after their narrow escape from Vera Petrov, Alyssa Cole and Nikolai Volkov are hiding in St. Petersburg, still reeling from the discovery of Project Echo—the Soviet program that trapped human souls inside ordinary objects. When a mysterious notebook surfaces at a local museum, its pages filled with the frantic testimony of a conscript who witnessed a massacre, Alyssa knows she has to touch it. What she finds is the dying echo of Dmitri Volkov, a soldier who sacrificed his life to save the names of twenty-three murdered scientists.

But they're not the only ones hunting for the notebook. Vera Petrov is back, wearing a new face and armed with her father's silver locket—the only object that can resist the echoes' power. She wants the notebook's list of names to complete the Echo Chain, a psychic network she believes will let her control human emotion itself. And she's willing to kill anyone who stands in her way.

When one of Vera's own men recognizes the soldier's echo and turns against her, Alyssa seizes the chance to strike back. But Vera's bunker holds more than a dozen stolen souls—and a terrifying revelation about what the Echo Chain was truly meant to create.

*The Soldier's Notebook* deepens the mystery of the Soviet Echo series with higher stakes, a pulse-pounding confrontation, and a discovery that will change everything Alyssa thought she knew about the objects she carries—and the souls trapped inside them.