Katya Burinskaya carries a deadly secret. So when she is summoned to the Lubyanka for a personal meeting with the head of Imperial Security, she fears the worst.

However, this meeting does not concern her, but her daughter. Tasha has become entangled with a troublesome genomic prince of the Imperial house, and both mother and daughter may suffer if Katya does not assist Security Minister Chalkov in investigating a family affair.

Politics makes for strange bedfellow in the new Russian Empire born of human cloning and Cold War genetic experiments. However, Chalkov was once an officer of the old Soviet KGB. And as Katya's husband often warns, once a Chekist, always a Chekist.

A short story of the Grisosm Timeline

Originally published in the anthology Mortis Operandi.