Princess Olga. The Striking Arrow

Flame-Hakon — the younger brother of the Kyiv prince Ingvar — went to the land of the Drevlians, where the voevoda Sveneld lives, and Prince Volodislav rules. Nobody even suspected what devastating consequences this would bring. War, betrayal, and death…
The... Kyiv prince Ingvar perishes in the land of the Drevlians, and Elga — a young woman with a teenage son — takes the helm of the state. The heavy burden of making difficult decisions and the responsibility to ensure that Rus', created by her uncle Oleg the Wise, does not fall apart, now rests on her shoulders. But Elga is not only a ruler; she is a woman who fears losing her loved ones. Or discovering a traitor in the person who has been dear to her for many years.
Not everyone’s fate allows them to achieve heroism. But even fewer are those who have the courage to accept fate’s challenge and thus earn great glory. Princess Elga accepted the challenge.
Each book by Elizabeth Dvoretskaya is an exciting adventure, a world of Ancient Rus' that you enter directly from the pages of the novel. Her characters evoke involuntary respect, their actions make you empathize and rejoice, and their fates are so captivating that it is impossible to tear oneself away until the very end.