For years, they called me a lucky one.
Long ago, in distant Africa, a beautiful mulatto girl with lips like ripe cherries placed an ancient amulet around his neck.
Back then, Tim was walking at the very edge of the abyss between life and death.
He survived—and now he’s back in Moscow to uncover the mystery of his father’s death. In his former apartment he meets a fragile girl—a stranger—whom his father, for some reason, left an unexpected inheritance.
Now a black shadow hangs over her. But will Tim’s luck last for both of them?
And should Tim really save a completely unfamiliar person?