In the battle between love and politics who will survive? Katya is married to a Soviet official; Drew is an American jazz musician. In the Soviet Union theirs is a love that breaks all the rules. And cannot be allowed. In a freezing winter at the height of the Cold War, jazz pianist Drew Fisher travels from New York to Moscow as part of a government-sponsored musical tour. His music is sublime, but beneath the surface he is haunted by the demons of past addiction and personal failure. Tour organizer Katya Timoshenko is locked in a very different battle; trapped in a loveless marriage to a high ranking official, she is fighting to keep herself and her children safe from the menace of the Soviet state. When Drew and Katya meet, the attraction is instantaneous, and their love unfolds beneath the suspicious eyes of both governments. Against seemingly impossible odds they plan a future together, but the authorities move to frustrate their love and leave them with the most difficult of choices.

Song for Katya evokes the spirit of a time and place when the purest of human emotions could be the most dangerous. Praise for Kevin Stevens' The Rizzoli Contract 'It's hard to believe that The Rizzoli Contract is a first novel, so accomplished is the plotting and writing' Sunday Telegraph.