Fate Without Obligations

More than a year has passed since his wife’s death, and Georgy Pestryakov feels it’s time to return to life.

A beauty, Anya—the daughter of family friends—is ideally suited to be his new life partner: she is smart, beautiful, and well-bred.

And let Nina, his longtime lover, remain in the past—she has no place in Pestryakov’s new happiness.

He is already preparing for the wedding, but then a doubt arises for Police Lieutenant Ziganshin: was Karina Pestryakova truly murdered by a madman, or is it a staged setup?