Thanks to the author for the free advance copy of this book.

American journalist Milly Bennett has traveled the world for her stories. In the early 1930s, she decides to move to Moscow to report on the promise of socialism. In the midst of it, her young Russian husband is arrested, forcing her to examine her marriage and the Soviet Union more closely.

SALT THE SNOW is based on the life story of the real Milly Bennett, who was quite the trailblazing woman. I fell hard for her in this book - she's fast talking, swashbuckling, impulse driven, and most of all, just looking to find her place in the world with someone who loves her.

The story takes a turn around 70 pages in, but it's not on the jacket copy so I hate to give too much away. Suffice to say this is a story about a woman not only finding her own path, but looking deeply at her reasons for doing so, all while trying to balance her drive for honest reporting with trying to get work past Soviet censors to international audiences. Milly's life was full of choices, and while she herself wasn't always sure she was making the right ones, I was rooting for her the whole way.