Anna Sterkhova came to the sea to rest after a painful divorce and difficult days of being a deputy-police officer in the city, but crimes found her even in the quiet town of Pridivny. First, someone broke into her room and left a striking message on the bed—a sandy grave mound. Then Anna saved a deranged girl who had decided to commit suicide. And after that, instead of a beach holiday, Sterkhova started investigating a crime. Fifteen years ago, in Pridivny under mysterious circumstances, the local beauty queen—Katerina Karatanova—disappeared. She was declared drowned, the case was closed and sent to archives, but Anna managed to uncover new circumstances of that notorious story…