For twelve whole years, Margarita Levanetskaya knew nothing about her school friend Alice! But it turns out Alice had recently returned from America to Moscow, got a job, fell in love, set a wedding date—and then… disappeared without a trace. Neither a private detective nor the police can find the missing bride. A distressed uncle and a groom stricken with grief believe Margarita is their last hope. She has no choice but to retrain herself into a sleuth and start her own investigation. But it turns out to be super-dangerous—just hang on! A mysterious killer is hunting Margarita, removing witnesses one by one. All she has are two pieces of evidence: a letter hidden in a winter boot and Alice’s red briefcase. And also—an old friend, a clumsy guy named Zhora Surodeykin, and a new acquaintance, Valeriy Vecherinikov, whom she can’t help noticing is terribly unwilling to play the role of a prince on a white horse…