nearest 1980 Joanne Wilder and her partner Ruth Wilson have a small private investigation business in Portland maine. they may not get rich in their work tracking down Aaron husbands missing nieces and runaway teenagers but at least it's a living. and for Joanna it's a way to escape her past. simple job taking on as a favor to a new friend punches Joanna into the very life she has been trying to hard to forget life that is people with Russian immigrants and distance and which descent betrayal and death are never far away shadow dance weaves and intricate plot that moves from the terrors of the Russian prison camp to the glamor of New York City ballet World from the secret meetings of a group of radical feminists to the vision and ideas of tormented women poet who seeks to create a new society and though it is it all moves Joanna Wilder. her past has prepared her to face death has it all so taught her how to accept love?

ISBN: 0895943468