Panoramic and lush, Push Not The River is the romantic epic of one young countess's coming of age during the upheaval of eighteenth century Poland - a time of heartache and turmoil as the country is torn apart by neighbouring countries and divided loyalties. At seventeen, Lady Anna Maria Berezowska loses her family and must leave the only home she have ever know. With Catherine's Russian armies streaming in to take their spoils, Anna is quickly thrust into a world of love and hate, patriotism and treason, life and death.