Brilliant journalist Dmitry Poluyanov considered his fiancée Nadia Mitrofanova a sweet but—alas—predictable girl. And what could a modest librarian possibly surprise him with? So when his fiancée’s former classmate died, Dima had no doubts it was an accident. Only one thing was unclear: why was his fiancée nervous and begging him to investigate the girl’s death? At first glance, there were no mysteries: an ordinary everyday murder. But Nadia insisted… Intrigued, Poluyanov begins a journalistic investigation and very soon learns the truth: it turns out that quiet, unassuming Nadezhda in the past had lived a life far removed from her current exemplary one. And she made enemies—so serious that even now, ten years later, her life remains in danger…