Anika Scott

International Bestselling Author

The Soviet Sisters (North American edition)

Sinners of Starlight City (North American edition)

Anika Scott

Thanks for stopping by my site! I write the kind of novels I love to read -- immersive, suspenseful, plot-happy stories that deeply mine character and the big questions of life and the world. My latest novel SINNERS OF STARLIGHT CITY features a Sicilian-American femme fatale on a mission of vengeance at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. My debut THE GERMAN HEIRESS follows a woman reckoning with her guilt in postwar Germany. In THE SOVIET SISTERS,...

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Sinners of Starlight City (UK edition)

Vengeance is in the family, and the family is a bond like no other…

It’s the worst year of the Great Depression, and America needs all the hope it can get. The Chicago World’s Fair, a glittery city-within-a-city, becomes a symbol of the good that’s yet to come. But every utopia has a seedy side—and that’s Rosa Mancuso’s world. As the mysterious...

The German Heiress

International Bestseller

Essen, 1946. Clara Falkenberg, once an iconic heiress, is on the run. With the city in ruins and her dear friend Elisa missing, Clara enlists the help of Jakob, a charming young racketeer with his own reasons for wanting to find Elisa. As the two join forces, it’s not long before Clara’s family secrets catch up with her. But she soon comes to...

The Soviet Sisters (North American edition)

Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets...

Praise

The magnificent Anika Scott has written a lush and beautifully rendered novel about the meaning of family and the power of love.

– Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone

Anika Scott has a gift for weaving incredibly researched historical detail into an emotionally powerful story that left me with tears in my eyes. Historical fiction fans will love this book!

– Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London

Anika Scott pens a fascinating tale of secrets, surveillance, and sisterhood set against the burgeoning Cold War. Two very different sisters come to shattered postwar Berlin—KGB doyenne Vera, fanatically committed to Stalin's vision, and interpreter Marya, embroiled in an affair with a British officer—and are pitted against each other in an espionage plot that will see one sister elevated and the other exiled in disgrace. But who is the real traitor, and who is hiding the biggest secret of all? The Soviet Sisters will suck you in to the very last page!

– Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye

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January 22, 2026

The Alps

The mountains play a big role in my fourth novel.