To Spare Is to Ruin, or Games with Men's Fates

You must not talk, and certainly not flirt, with strangers—such is one of the rules of good manners in the Victorian era. Modern girls find such prohibitions funny and hopelessly outdated. And in vain… Alina stopped at a traffic light and smiled sweetly at an impressive man from the nearby jeep. Oh, better she hadn’t done that! She would understand it later, when an accidental passenger burst into her apartment with a gun and drove her into a secluded forest. Without money, without documents, in a light nightgown, Alina runs out onto a country road. But instead of receiving help, she gives it herself—she pulls a person out of a burning car. The one she saved is handsome, rich, and single…