An artifact—the detectives of Natalya Alexandrova—is an exciting mix of dizzying adventures and mysterious crimes, ominous riddles and terrible secrets, shrouded in an aura of antiquity.
Lucretia Borgia was portrayed by great artists, her beauty inspired poets, but in history the pope’s illegitimate daughter entered as a symbol of cunning, cruelty, and debauchery. Who was she—a fatal woman whose gaze no man could resist, or a obedient doll her father and brother used to achieve their goals? According to legend, Lucretia possessed an unusual mirror that showed the future and offered advice to its owner. It was that mirror which once saved Lucretia’s life.
Over time, the silver mirror made by a Venetian master became a family relic passed down from generation to generation along the female line.
In our days, the artifact’s owner becomes Lyudmila—the daughter of a wealthy businessman, who has recently lost her husband, who died under strange circumstances. Quiet, passive, all her life she obeyed the will of a cruel father. But one day, when she looks into the mirror, she sees an entirely different woman in it…