Rain from High Clouds

All people are different: some are born warriors, others—peaceful “herbivores.” But a cornered hare sometimes becomes stronger than a wolf…
A successful metropolitan journalist finds it hard to believe in another reality where completely different values and interests rule. Just yesterday, it seemed to Nadezhda that the hardest thing was to figure out who to walk through life with. Near her are three worthy men: a colleague who has loved her for years; a loyal admirer who has become rich and famous; and a new acquaintance whose difficult and dangerous work she can only guess at. Their paths intersect at one point, and their plans are disrupted by someone else’s ruthless will. It turns out that even in the center of a prosperous megacity, it’s possible to live by the laws of wartime. And now peaceful people will have to taste “the milk of the she-wolf” to respond to the blow of a terrorist and save a loved one…

Sergey Alekseev dedicates his new book to lovers—meaning those who believe in miracles.