Orphan, agent, prima, pawn
(Book)

Sequel to: Hider, seeker, secret keeper.

The year is 1958, and sixteen-year-old Svetlana is stuck in a Moscow orphanage designated for the unwanted children of Stalin's enemies. Ballet is her obsession and salvation, her only hope at shedding a tainted family past. When she is invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet-the crown jewel of Russian culture and the pride of the Soviet Union-her dreams appear to have been realized. But she quickly learns that nobody's past or secrets are safe. The dreaded KGB knows about the mysterious trances Sveta has suffered, inexplicable episodes that seem to offer glimpses of the past. Some very powerful people believe Sveta is capable of serving the regime as more than a ballerina, and they wish to recruit her to spy on the West as part of the nascent Soviet psychic warfare program. If she is to erase the sins of her family, if she is to dance on the world stage for the Motherland-if she is to survive-she has no choice but to explore her other gift. -- from Amazon.

In post-Stalin cold war Russia, sixteen-year-old Svetlana secures her rising position in the Bolshoi Ballet by becoming an agent for the KGB's Psychological Intelligence Unit, but her relationships with two boys--one a hipster and the other a hustler--are starting to interfere with her obligations to the Motherland.