I just finished reading, "The Kitchen Boy," by Robert Alexander. Kalisah recommended it on her site a while back, and I ordered it from Amazon.
What a touching book. If you remember your world history, Czar Nicholas II of Russia was assasinated in 1918, along with his wife, daughters and son. A brief mention of a kitchen servant that accompanied the Romanov family into exile is made in one of Empress Alexandra's diaries, and the author built a very convincing historical novel around that mention.
The book's website gives a great summary of the book. If you like historical fiction or if you enjoyed "The DaVinci Code", then you'd probably like this one as well.