The Magic Junk Auction

It’s hardly worth telling a mole how wonderful it is to sunbathe. That’s how people also sometimes can’t understand another person’s pain. In Stepanida Kozlova’s friend, Asya Bolotova, trouble falls on the family one after another: first the husband’s father gets a stroke; then, from pneumonia, the husband’s sister dies; and after half a year, their niece as well. It’s terribly sad—this happens in life. But when in the hospital, with the same diagnosis, Asya’s husband Nikolai ends up too, she breaks into a real hysteria. The woman does a full disinfection of the entire house and begs Stepa for help. After all, something’s clearly not right here!

Looking into the causes behind the string of tragedies, Kozlova traces the trail of Lola, who once had a spicy affair with Nikolai. And… she too died of pneumonia. What should she do? How to tell her friend about the adultery? Stop investigating? But suddenly it becomes clear to Stepa: all these deaths are connected, and there is something much more behind them than just bad luck… Darya Dontsova is the most popular and in-demand author in our country, the favorite of millions of readers. In Russia, more than 200 million copies of her books have been sold. Her work fills hearts and souls with light, optimism, joy, and confidence in tomorrow! “Dontsova is an incredible hard worker! I don’t know any other writer who works as much. I respect her as an example of writing diligence. Women need psychological support—and they get it from Dontsova. I read several of Dontsova’s novels myself in my time. Very different people read her. And very busy business ladies—to turn off their heads for a while—and housewives, who have a break of 15–20 minutes between taking the kids off and picking them up.” — Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic.