Alexandr and Grigoriy, brothers are spies for the Russian Federation SVR and teach their children their trade. Victor, 19 needs an operation he cannot get in Russia without having the entire family executed. Victor needs a sex change operation, so the family make the ultimate sacrifice and defect to the USA, then will live in the UK.
Just before their planned defection, they are told their eldest daughters, Ekaterina and Natalye, must remain in St. Petersburg. After saving the life of their Vice President in Paris, they are killed in a planned plane explosion by the CIA. They get to CIA Langley, while their two daughters become lesbian lovers in Russia. They invent the first Quantum Computer, taking their huge Starships, to distant planets, and inhabit the Moon.
In the UK Anastasia is given a bodyguard, Ryan, an expert in languages from Australia. He is thought to be timid but likes Anastasia. He is armed, Anastasia wears a thigh holster with a Russian Gloc.
One evening, Anastasia asks Ryan to take out the driver of her parents' car. She is sure he is a spy. Ryan kills the driver and is looked on in a different light. The following day, he escorts Anastasia to NUUK Greenland to retrieve a Quantum Computer. While wating to meet their contact from Russia, She sees a jewellers and thinking of her past, she asks Ryan to buy her an engagement ring and two wedding rings to make their cover look authentic.
By the afternoon they are married, the following night, they meet a group of people, who seem very friendly and very touchy. When they return to their hotel room, Ryan removes the slips of paper from their bodies revealing the date they will get help to rescue Ekaterina and Natalye
Two weeks later they are in Russia in a firefight, to get the Sisters out of Russia with ten couples onto a US Submarine. When it looks like they will all die, the people they met in Nuuk, help fight the Russians, then three Australian fighter jets take out two Migs, allowing the Submarine to get free.
It is then, Anastasia realises the power her husband can yield, as she learns, he is a Captain of the Australian Air Force attached to NATO. He yields as much power and command as her father can.
On their return to the UK. Anastasia and Ryan are asked by the Director of MI6 if they will carry out missions for them. A month later they are given their first job, continued in The Nuclear Incident.
