For easy work with big pay, they won’t hand it out! Antonina Beresklet remembered this simple truth too late, when her already sent from Petrograd to the very heart of faraway Chukotka. Ahead of her lies a year in a village house, among strange customs and the harsh beauty of the tundra. Antonina will have to investigate mysterious deaths and use her gift to uncover the crime. Along with her, on the trail of the killer, walks the district police chief—a gloomy Sidor Berezin, whom the Chukchi call Umka, the white bear, for a reason. Will the city girl endure it—or will she run as soon as the snow melts?