Shadows of a Southern Night

Writer Manya Polivanova accidentally becomes a witness to a murder during a TV show. Trying to get out of a creative rut, she heads to sunny Pyatigorsk, hoping to rest and reboot, but instead of calm she is pulled into a complex investigation connected to the past of the deceased head chef. And then, on the veranda of a Lermontov cottage, a real time portal opens before her. Having found herself in the 19th century, Manya lives an entirely different fate—one filled with a passionate feeling for the young poet Michel and a desperate determination to save him from the inevitable duel…